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| 13 die in Sirte fighting | ||
| 2016-09-24 | ||
[AAWSAT] Three members of the Libyan government of national accord’s forces and ten ISIS fighters were killed in Sirte yesterday after renewed fighting in the coastal city, according to military and medical sources.
In another statement, the office of government forces said that they were able to foil three attempted car bombings before they reached their targets. A field hospital run by government forces announced that three pro-government fighters were killed in Sirte yesterday, while government troops reported that at least ten members of the extremist organisation ISIS were killed. Libyan government forces launched operation Al-Bunyan Al-Marsoos (“Solid Structure”) on the 12th of March to regain Sirte from the extremist organisation ISIS which has controlled it since June 2015. According to medical sources, more than 450 pro-government fighters have been killed and some 2,500 have been wounded since the operation began. There are no statistics about the number of ISIS fighters that have been killed. The fall of Sirte will be a painful blow to ISIS which is experiencing a series of setbacks in Iraq and Syria. Meanwhile, the spokesman for the Secretary General of the Arab League Mahmoud Afifi yesterday revealed that a tripartite meeting on coordination will be held in Cairo on October the 25th between Arab League representatives, the African Union and the United Nations in an effort to address the crisis in Libya. More from the Libyan Herald The United States’ Africa Command (Africom) reported today that yesterday it carried out a further 8 new airstrikes against ISIS in Sirte. These latest reported strikes bring the total of airstrikes in Sirte to 169 since Operation Odyssey Lightning commenced on 1st August this year, Africom reports. The airstrikes conducted on 22 September were against the following eight targets: o One Vehicle-Borne Improvised Explosive Device
However, although the Misrata dominated Bunyan Marsous forces report that ISIS are confined to a small area of two to three square kilometres, ISIS have proved difficult to dislodge as they escalate their use of IED’s and vehicle borne IED’s causing Bunyan forces high casualties. | ||
| Posted by:badanov |
| #3 Why do I get the image of outhouse exploding and someone actually counting the holes therein? |
| Posted by: magpie 2016-09-24 20:07 |
| #2 I went to Jihad, and all I got was sent to Sirte. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2016-09-24 19:44 |
| #1 To summarize: one VBIED and eight enemy positions Probably sounded better in the original Libyan. /sarc |
| Posted by: Pappy 2016-09-24 11:44 |