The United States says it carried out its first airstrike in Libya since Donald Trump’s inauguration.
U.S. Africa Command said 17 suspected ISIL militants were killed in Friday’s strike, around 200 kilometres from the eastern Libyan city of Sirte.
The suspected ISIL camp was supposedly used for the movement of terrorists in and out of Libya.
“The camp was used by ISIS to move fighters in and out of the country; stockpile weapons and equipment; and to plot and conduct attacks,” Africa Command said in a later statement, adding that ISIS operatives in Libya have “been connected to multiple attacks across Europe.”
Reports indicate that that armed drones were used to carry out the strike.
ISIL’s presence in Libya has dwindled following a nearly five-month-long US air campaign against the terror group in the final months of President Barack Obama’s administration.
Small groups of fighters however began reconstituting themselves amid the instability that rocked the North African nation.
The last known U.S. airstrike in Libya took place in January, a day before Trump’s inauguration.
