“We haven't made any decision to take military action… We’re not in the lead for doing that,” Carter said. “It's a situation that bears close watching and concern.”
In Wednesday, Department of Defense spokesman Peter Cook told reporters the Pentagon was considering deploying military forces including ground troops in Libya.
Carter noted there is a lot of civil war disturbance going on in Libya.
“We're looking to help them getting control of their own country,” he added.
Also this week, US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Joseph Dunford said the Obama administration wanted to take decisive military action against the Islamic State in Libya, in an effort to create a “fire wall” between them and other terror groups operating in Africa.
The Islamic State, also known as Daesh, is a designated terrorist group that is outlawed in the United States and Russia, among many other countries.
