Ten ‘jihadists’ and nine pro-government fighters died in clashes Thursday around the last positions of the ISIL group in the Libyan coastal city of Sirte, medical and military sources said.

“Our forces are advancing on the last holdouts of ISIL” in the only district of Sirte still held by the terrorist group, said the media office of the pro-government fighters.

Three car bombs driven by ‘jihadists’ were destroyed before reaching their targets, it said.

Sirte was an ISIL stronghold before forces loyal to the country’s Government of National Accord launched an offensive against the jihadists in May.

The hospital in Misrata, a town half-way between Sirte and Tripoli, to which casualties are ferried, said on Facebook that nine pro-GNA fighters were killed and 40 wounded.

Source: AFP