Daesh terrorists have killed three Libyan security personnel in the country’s southwest, according to a statement issued Thursday by Libya’s Interior Ministry. The attack on Wednesday, in the desert some 700 kilometers (430 miles) south of Tripoli, “targeted a patrol of the Umm al-Aranib Martyrs’ Brigade, killing three of its members,” the ministry said in a statement. The Umm al-Aranib Martyrs’ Brigade is largely made up of members of the long-marginalized Tubu ethnic group. Libya has been roiled by lawlessness since the 2011 fall of dictator Moammar Gadhafi, with an array of armed groups vying for control. Daesh took advantage of the chaos to seize parts of the country’s north and east, but after a string of offensives saw it kicked out of its final bastion Derna in 2018.

Source: Libya Today January 30, 2022 15:23 UTC