...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
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
on Monday, leaving just one district of the city still occupied by the turbans.
Spokesman Rida Issa said Sirte's neighborhood Number One was "completely liberated", but added that the brigades, backed by U.S. air strikes, were "in the process of clearing any remnants of ISIS (Islamic State)" from the area.
For more than three months, brigades aligned with Libya's U.N.-backed government have been battling to oust Islamic State from Sirte, a coastal city that the turban group turned into a regional stronghold last year.
The United States began an air campaign over Sirte on Aug. 1, and had by Sunday carried out 92 strikes against Islamic State.
Militants have defended themselves with jacket wallahs, snipers and mines, inflicting heavy casualties on brigade fighters. At least six brigade members were killed and 12 maimed on Monday, according to hospital officials.
The latest gains came after the brigades made significant advances on Sunday in which 35 of their men were killed and more than 200 maimed.
Many of the latest casualties were caused by mines, boom-mobiles or artillery fire, according to hospital officials and brigade fighters.
Main ISIS mosque in Libya's Sirte recaptured
[Libya Observer] Misrata-led forces captured on Sunday ISIS main mosque in Sirte after a massive offensive to terminate the radical group in its last hideouts in the city.Backed by
Leading ISIS preachers, including Bahraini Turki Benali, used to give Jihad lessons to ISIS followers in this mosque.
In August 2015, locals of residential district 3, mainly from Furjan tribe, turned against ISIS and clashed with its forces of Evil for days after the killing of Cordoba mosque's Imam Khaled Furjani. The Furjan fighters positioned inside Cordoba Mosque and used rooftops of nearby buildings to shoot at ISIS bully boys, who finally managed to put down the uprising.
The tossed in the slammer
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
members of Furjan tribe were executed outside the mosque, which was a key symbol for the tribe.
2 days later, ISIS renamed the mosque to Abu Musab Zarqawi and forced local residents and Furjan tribe members to attended Jihad lessons.
On Sunday, Misrata-led forces said around 70% of residential district 3 and 80% of residential district 1 were retaken from ISIS. 38 Misrata-led fighters were killed and more than 185 others maimed in the offensive.