Libya's Sirte-based security forces announced seizing large amounts of launchers and rockets Thursday night, affirming the mobilization of terror militias.
Despite announcing the Libyan city of Sirte becoming ISIS free at the end of 2016, it seems that the terrorist organization found its way back to the eastern city. ISIS terrorists took advantage of the local clashes ravaging Libya’s south to return.
In a statement posted on its Facebook page, the Information Center for the Structural Operations of the Libyan Presidential Council said that Sirte’s security forces had seized 25 rockets in an ISIS-held area south of the city, along with Launchers. In the process of seizing the weaponry, Libya Shield Force units also took down a terror ring plotting attacks.
The statement went on to say that ISIS threat in Sirte is still in place despite “nearly a year and a half passing since the group’s defeat at the hands of security forces.”
It is worth mentioning that the terror group claimed responsibility for a bombing which targeted a security gate 90 kilometers east of Sirte, causing casualties in security forces stationed there, and some civilians.
Sirte Mayor Mukhtar al-Mudani warned from the poor living conditions at a municipality meeting.
Mudani said that deteriorating living conditions might work for the benefit of ISIS’ return, paving the way for the terrorist organization.
The terror group is responsible for many atrocities and bloodshed in Libya, as its recruits systematically carry out acts of violence.
ISIS militants in Barqa Province in eastern Libya announced that 15 fighters from the Libyan National Army headed by Khalifa Haftar were killed or wounded, and two vehicles were destroyed, in the explosion of an ISIS car bomb at a checkpoint in the Al-Jafra area in central Libya (553 km southwest of Benghazi).
The car bomb was driven by an ISIS operative codenamed Abu Muhammad al-Muhajir (Akhbar al-Muslimeen, February 22, 2018).
The organization also adopted a terror bombing that targeted the eastern gate of the city of Ajdabiya in March, which left six dead and many wounded.
