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Libya’s GNA forces still face dogged resistance in Sirte

By AFP
21 November 2016   |   5:00 am
Within weeks, forces loyal to Libya's Government of National Accord (GNA) recaptured large chunks of the coastal city of Sirte that IS jihadists had seized in June 2015 as a staging post for an expansion into North Africa.

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