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Africa North
IS seizes control of airport in Libya's Sirte: Tripoli govt
2015-05-30
[AlAhram] The Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
jihadist group has seized control of the airport in the city of Sirte after forces of a Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
-based Libyan government withdrew, a front man said Friday.

Mohammed al-Shami, whose government is not recognised by the international community, said its forces pulled out late Thursday from the airport which had "fallen into the hands of the IS organization".

IS itself said it captured the airport, which is also a military base, in a message posted on Twitter.


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