Does that mean the Obama administration achieved its goal of saving Libya from ISIS, and preventing the creation of a new safe haven for ISIS jihadis driven from their shrinking kingdom in Syria? "This was the largest remaining ISIS presence in Libya," a U.S. defense official said of the two jihadi encampments taken out in the airstrikes. In mid-2014, three years after the collapse of the Qaddafi regime, ISIS had about 1,000 fighters in Libya. He said that while the strikes that killed 90 "squirters" were a serious blow to ISIS in Libya, the group had not been "decimated." A map showing location of Sirte, Libya, formerly an ISIS stronghold.

Source: Libya Today January 28, 2017 15:45 UTC