Italy maintains its military presence in Libya with a “mission that has evolved” over the years, based on the “needs proposed by the government of Tripoli”, said Italian army corps general Francesco Paolo Figliuolo during his recent visit to Libya. Figliuolo was Misurata last Thursday where met with Italian soldiers of the Hippocrates Task Force. However, according to Figliuolo, the mission has evolved because the threat of ISIS is “no longer immanent and strong as it was in the past months and years”. “Today our mission has evolved,” Figliuolo told Italian soldiers in Misurata. “It has changed on the basis of the needs proposed by the government of Tripoli”.

Source: Libya Today June 19, 2022 13:59 UTC