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Forces push Daesh back from vicinity of Libya oil terminals
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 02 - 06 - 2016

BENGHAZI, LibyaLibyan security forces captured a second town from in as many days from Daesh (so-called IS), a spokesman said, pushing the militant group back towards its stronghold of Sirte and away from positions near major oil terminals.
The Petroleum Facilities Guard took control of Nawfiliyah, about 130 km from Sirte, though fighting outside the town raged on and some PFG members had been wounded, spokesman Ali Al-Hassi said. The PFG captured the nearby town of Ben Jawad on Monday after clashes that killed five of its combatants.
PFG forces say they are fighting on behalf of a UN-backed unity government that arrived in Tripoli in March to try to end factional chaos prevailing since Muammar Gaddafi's fall in 2011, with militants taking root in the security vacuum.
PFG forces have advanced since separate brigades aligned with the unity government pushed Daesh back to the outskirts of Sirte from the west.
Western states are counting on the unity government to bring together Libya's armed factions and tackle Daesh, which has exploited anarchy in the oil-producing North African state to establish its strongest base outside Syria and Iraq.
But the new government faces a tough task integrating Libya's complex web of armed groups, and has failed to win support from key political and military factions in the east. On Tuesday it announced an operations room to run the campaign against Daesh on the coastal stretch between the eastern town of Ajdabiya and Sirte, which includes the PFG-controlled oil terminals of Es Sider and Ras Lanuf. It did not say which forces would be under its command.
Daesh extended its presence along some 250 km of Mediterranean coast on either side of Sirte, and in January attacked Es Sider and Ras Lanuf.
Daesh has lost no significant population centers in its coastal zone over the last week but if government-backed brigades hold their ground, the militants' buffer zone around Sirte would have shrunk significantly.
The PFG is a thousands-strong paramilitary force set up to safeguard the country's oil installations. — Reuters


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