Militants of Daesh (the self-proclaimed IS) have shifted to desert valleys and inland hills southeast of Tripoli as they seek to exploit Libya's political divisions after defeat in their former stronghold of Sirte, security officials say.
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AS Daesh's (so-called IS) last defenses crumbled this week in their Libyan bastion Sirte, dozens of women and children used as human shields stumbled dazed and dust-caked from the rubble.
Fighters from the armed groups that defeated the militants (...)
Ayman al-Warfalli
BY defiantly attempting to export their own oil and dispatching troops toward the center of the country, Libya's eastern factions may be gambling on force as they bid for a larger stake under a UN-backed unity government.
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PACKED into a battered car, a family of nine joined the steady flow of residents fleeing the Daesh's (so-called IS) Libyan stronghold of Sirte. They were heading to a nearby town to pick up essentials: cash, medicine and food.
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A month after it was agreed in Morocco, a UN-backed plan for a united Libyan government is struggling to take off.
Efforts to push the hard-fought compromise through show the enduring regional rivalries and power struggles that have bedeviled Libya (...)
