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Libya Updates 6/12/17
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Far from Mosul, ISIS close to defeat in Libya’s Sirte11/18/16 After six months of heavy fighting, Libyan forces have advanced so deep into the strategic city of Sirte that they can pick out the Tunisian and Egyptian accents of their ISIS enemies as they trade insults over the frontline.
Victory is imminent on this remote front of the war against ISIS, with the last few militants staging a last stand in a small area of just one square kilometer (0.4 square mile), US and Libyan officials say.
But the battle has been long and hard, and holds lessons for US backed forces trying to force ISIS out of the much larger Iraqi city of Mosul more than 2,500 km (1,500 miles) away.
‘We faced unbelievable resistance. They won’t leave their posts even when houses are collapsing on them,’ said Osama Issa, a 37-year-old businessman fighting with Libyan forces in Ghiza, the last neighborhood of Sirte that ISIS holds. [ link to english.alarabiya.net]
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