MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Pentagon officials have identified dozens of targets that could be hit if a broader anti-Daesh operation in launched in Libya, the newspaper said on Friday, explaining that so far, the United States has only launched two airstrikes against Daesh in Libya.
According to The Washington Post, two "contact teams" of American Special Operations troops, numbering fewer than 25, have been stationed in eastern and western Libya since 2015.
Libya has been in a political and security vacuum since the 2011 Arab Spring uprising and the ouster of the North African nation’s long-time leader Muammar Gaddafi. Last December, a unity government was eventually mediated by the UN between the two rival governments, in Tripoli and Tobruk.
The instability in the country has created a political and security vacuum that was largely filled by Islamist militants.
