Smoke rose from the Tripoli headquarters of Libya’s National Oil Corp. after an attack Sept. 10 later claimed by Islamic State. Smoke rose from the Tripoli headquarters of Libya’s National Oil Corp. after an attack Sept. 10 later claimed by Islamic State. “The best recruiter for the Islamic State in Libya is political turmoil, political infighting. Attacks on Libya’s oil industry—including an attack on the oil ports by a militia in June and a previous attack by Islamic State on an oil field in February—have imperiled a modest recovery in the Libyan oil sector. Oil production has climbed back to close to one million barrels a day since the state oil company persuaded armed groups to reopen facilities they had previously blocked.

Source: Wall Street Journal September 18, 2018 12:00 UTC