The U.S. command for Africa AFRICOM Tuesday said it conducted an airstrike that killed an Islamic State group (ISIS) militant in the town of Bani Walid, 153 km south of capital Tripoli. AFRICOM assisted the GNA-aligned forces to retake Sirte from the terror group in 2016. Following the fall of the terror group in Sirte, AFRICOM has continued carrying out occasional airstrikes. In June, two precision airstrikes killed four ISIS fighters as well as one al Qaeda militant. ISIS entered Libya in 2014 amidst the chaos that followed Gaddafi’s demise in 2011, in a NATO-backed revolution.

Source: The North Africa Journal August 29, 2018 14:48 UTC