Libyan forces say they have retaken one of the last districts in central Sirte held by Islamic State militants.
Forces aligned with Libya’s UN-backed government in Tripoli are three months into a campaign to expel the Islamist militants from their North African stronghold, and have encircled them in a shrinking section of the city centre.
Since the beginning of August, the forces have been aided by US airstrikes on Islamic State vehicles, weapons and fighting positions.
The US Africa Command on Saturday said it had already carried out 48 strikes.
The Libyan forces are composed mainly of brigades from the western city of Misrata. After they secured key sites south of central Sirte last week, fighting shifted into neighbourhood Number 2, which the brigades said they had now captured.
