The Never-Ending War: U.S. Announces New Front Against ISIS in Libya

Amy Goodman
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Democracy Now!
August 02, 2016World

Airstrikes in Libya on Monday took place in the city of Sirte. Pentagon officials said the campaign would continue until ISIS has been driven from the city, which it took over last year. Libya has been engulfed in fighting after a U.S.-backed military intervention ousted longtime dictator Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. The Pentagon said Libya’s Western-backed unity government requested the airstrikes. The so-called unity government is one of three competing governments that claim legitimacy in the country. We speak to Phyllis Bennis, fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. She’s the author of "Understanding ISIS and the New Global War on Terror."

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