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Libyan forces edge forward against Islamic State holdouts in Sirte |
2016-11-25 |
[REUTERS] Libyan forces resumed their advance on Thursday against 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.... Backed by U.S. air strikes, the Libyan brigades have reduced the area held by the jihadists to a small patch of land near Sirte's Mediterranean seafront after a campaign of more than six months. Lately, they say, they have been advancing with more caution in the Ghiza Bahriya district to limit casualties among their own fighters and among any hostages and families still held there. "According to our information there are still civilians including women and kiddies inside," Mohammed al-Gasri, a front man for the brigades, told private TV station Libya's Channel. "The instructions are not to rush in, in order to limit the damage." Several groups of civilians have either escaped or been released in Sirte in recent weeks, including |
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