Britain has sent 40 military personnel to Tunisia to provide training aimed at helping the North African country prevent the spread of ISIL Takfiri militants from neighboring Libya, the British defense minister said on Saturday. The training will focus on operational planning, intelligence, surveillance and mobile patrolling and is the ...
Libyan pro-government forces have advanced into another area in their battle to liberate Sirte from ISIL in fighting that killed 14 of their troops, military officials and hospital sources said. After six months of fighting, Libyan forces allied with the UN-backed government in Tripoli are close to clearing out the ...