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Libya News - Mar 8, 2016

By bartolo - Posted on 07 March 2016

Tunisia: 45 killed as Islamist fighters launch RPG assault reportedly from Libya on border town of Ben Guerdane - ibtimes.co.uk

Tunisia Closes Border with Libya After Attack Kills 50 - teleSUR English

VIDEO: Tunisia’s president: "Today’s attack on the army is unprecedented, organized and was probably meant to declare a new state" - euronews

Islamic State expands in post-Qaddafi Libya - CNN.com

Islamic State forging migrant army in Libya by dominating human trafficking routes - Middle East Eye

Has Islamic State acquired Qaddafi’s deadly shoulder-held missiles? - newsweek.com

VIDEO: Islamic State militants muster ‘military style’ attack in Tunisia - CNN

VIDEO: Live footage of the battle in Ben Guerdane, Tunisia - YouTube

VIDEO (Arabic): Islamic State message to Tunisia - YouTube

Did Islamic State chief Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi moved from Turkey to Libya to escape hunt operation? - alalam.ir

Islamic State in Libya: How Boko Haram jihadis are flocking to join holy war in North Africa - ibtimes.co.uk

Qaeda affiliate Ansar Dine claims four attacks in Mali - The Long War Journal

The Islamic State papers: leaked documents show how Isis is building its state - The Guardian

The Islamic State papers: behind 'death cult' image lies a methodical bureaucracy - The Guardian

Islamic State faces crude reality as oil output slumps, the well-oiled war machine is starting to creak - CNN

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International Libya force led by Italy readied as dozens killed in Tunisia - The Guardian

PM Renzi: Italy won’t rush into action, move against Islamic State remains on hold as long as Libya has not formed a unified government - The Local

Italy foreign minister Gentiloni discusses Islamic State militants, migration from Libya - ibtimes.com

VIDEO (and transcript): FM Gentiloni on Italy's role in the Mediterranean - Council on Foreign Relations

Foreign minister Lamamra: Algeria won't be involved in military intervention in Libya or elsewhere - allAfrica.com

Sisi says Egypt won't intervene militarily in Libya - Ahram Online

Egypt, France hold joint Mediterranean military exercise amid concerns over the growing influence of IS in Libya - alaraby.co.uk

Will Islamic State use Libya as a springboard to attack Egypt? - Commentary Magazine

Hillary Clinton says she supports using special forces in Libya - TIME

VIDEO: Hillary Clinton defends past intervention to overthrow Qaddafi, says she supports using special forces in Libya now - Fox News

Islamic State's setback in Libya bolsters defiant general Haftar who scored success over jihadist groups in Benghazi - Bloomberg Business

General Khalifa Haftar: man on whose shoulders ‘peace’ in Libya rests - New Delhi Times

Revolutionary Brigades gathering forms unified operations room in Tripoli, “we call on the UN to stop the war waged by rogue General Khalifa Haftar" - The Libya Observer

Libya’s militias in Tripoli take justice into their own hands - Al-Monitor

Libya's central bank causing 'civil war' by paying rival militias, says UK envoy - Telegraph

Libyan Wealth Fund control dispute reaches London court, disagreement mirrors battles between the two Libyan governments - Bloomberg Business

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