Beyond Syria and Iraq, we continue to use the full range of our tools to go after ISIL wherever it tries to take root, as we showed with our recent strike on an ISIL training camp in Libya. 在叙利亚和伊拉克之外,我们将继续利用我们所有的能力打击ISIL,无论他们想去哪里扎根,最近我们对利比亚...
The breadth and length of the videos were also broadcast and shown in different languages and countries such as Algeria, Libya and Egypt, thus reflecting the transnational appeal of Isis. The videos specifically called for; ‘young men and Muslims in various parts of the world to fight for ...
Roughly 200 members of the Islamic State group remaining in Libya are pinned down in three neighborhoods in the port city of Sirte, and U.S. military officials predict their defeat is certain. "They don't have any place else to retreat to at this point," Pentagon spokesman Navy Capt. Je...
How ISIS Fights: Military Tactics in Iraq, Syria, Libya and EgyptHow ISIS Fights: Military Tactics in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Egypt by Omar Ashour is reviewed.Bunker, Robert J
On August 1, 2016, the U.S. conducted rare airstrikes against inside Libya. This video shows the first strike, which the Pentagon says successfully destroyed a T-72 tank used by ISIS militants.
More than 40 years ago, the Nixon-Kissinger bombing of Cambodia unleashed a torrent of suffering from which that country has never recovered. The same is true of the Blair-Bush crime in Iraq, and the Nato and “coalition” crimes in Libya and Syria. With impeccable timing, Henry Kissinger’...
The group is based in the northern coastal city of Sirte. It is estimated to have somewhere between 2,000 and 5,000 fighters there. Last week, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter warned that ISIS militants were trying to "consolidate their own footprint" in Libya by setting up training si...
In addition to the images of the "military parade" in Sirte, Morocco's Interior Ministry said in a statement Thursday that Libya had become a "magnet" for jihadists in the region. The statement announced the arrest of three men accused of seeking to travel to Libya to join ISIS. ...
April 19, 2015 - ISIS releases a video that appears to show militants beheading two groups of prisoners in Libya. The Ethiopian government confirms that 30 of the victims were Ethiopian citizens. May 16, 2015 - A key ISIS leader is killed during a US Special Operations raid in Syria, accor...
In remarkably blunt testimony, President Barack Obama’s nominee to command U.S. forces in Africa said Tuesday that more ground troops were needed in Libya to fight ISIS and agreed the current strategy of not bombing the terror group’s affiliate there