[Libya Herald] An end to the hostilities near Sidra oil terminal following the decision by Operation Sunrise to withdraw its forces there to last week and refocus on the fight against the Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
in Sirte has resulted in LNA troops from Tobruk standing down and returning home.
The men from Brigade 415 (Shuhada Al-Nadurah) which had been temprarily based between Sidra and Brega took part in a homecoming ceremony In Tobruk's Martyrs' Square on Monday at which local civil society activist Kamal Awad congratulated them for protecting the oil terminals and fields.
The force was prepared to protect every Libyan town and city, he declared, if asked to do so by the House of Representatives.
Operation Sunrise forces pulled back from Sidra to near Sirte a week ago, following a deal with the Petroleum Facilities Guards. They first attacked the oil terminal there in December. In the intervening three months, before the festivities reached stalemate, well over a hundred fighters from both sides were reported killed and one and a half million barrels of oil lost as a result of oil tanks being set ablaze.