Libya ISIS Capabilities Will not Return to Pre-2016 Levels.
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Washington, 16 October 2019(Lana) US Army times Newspaper quoted
a Defence Department official as saying 'the air raid carried out
against ISIS positions in Libya has weakened the organisation and it
is not likely that its camps inside Libya will return to pre-2016
levels.'
The official who asked not to be identified referred to 4 air
raids by the US forces in the last weeks which killed nearly third of
ISIS camp in Libya, namely 43 fighters while nearly 100 still there.
The official said the Americans however, concentrate on a
political solution to the ongoing conflict in Libya, and carried out
the last strikes just to exert pressure on ISIS still inside it.
Nevertheless the official doubted the organisation's ability to
return to pre-2016 levels, before it lost its control of Sirte and
its fighters fled to the desert.
The American official said the organisation concentrates on local
recruiting though foreign fighters were part of its forces.
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