Alwaght-Libyan forces have ejected ISIS terrorists out of Sabratha after the Takfiri terrorists occupied the center of the northwestern city for several hours.
Sabratha's municipal council said in a statement on Wednesday that the fighting broke out after local brigades attacked suspected ISIS bases 15 kilometers south of the city.
The ISIS terrorists then "took advantage of the security vacuum downtown and spread out all over the city" before they were forced out by the local brigades, the statement added.
Meanwhile sources in Libya say French Special Forces have entered the country. Reports say a French detachment has been operating from Benghazi’s Benina airport assisting forces of the internationally-backed Libyan authorities in Tobruk.
Le Monde said special forces units, alongside the DGSE, France’s external security directorate, have been in Libya for several months, and are working together with US forces. The Pentagon has confirmed that US forces were deployed there in January.
Last December, a top Libyan official rejected any foreign military intervention to cope with threats to its security, including terrorism in the country saying what the international community needs to provide is better weapons and training for its forces.
The country’s Foreign Minister Mohamed Al-Dair said Libya is not going to request foreign airstrikes against terrorist groups. It will ask the UN Security Council to lift restrictions concerning access to “adequate weaponry” imposed on the country’s army, once the government of the national accord is formed.
