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The campaign to free Libya’s city of Sirte from ISIL control continues.
Libyan forces have secured several government buildings that had been used by ISIL fighters. Intensified aerial attacks — with U.S. support — and a barrage of tank fire on the ground is slowly but surely dislodging the militants. ISIL nos controls only a residential area, less than one-kilometre long, in its former stronghold.
Pro-government forces are targeting the suburb of Manara, which used to be the militants’ main base outside territory controlled in Iraq and Syria.
