OSINT SUMMARY
Thursday 6, June 2016, recent military reports indicate that Libyan forces have advanced on the Eastern and Southern outskirts of a territory heavily controlled by Islamic State Takfiris.
According to the reports, troops loyal to the country recently created unity government have taken hold of one military camp in city of Sirte, the Islamic State’s headquarters in Libya.
In May, 2016 (last month) Libyan brigades launched counter-offensives aimed at flushing the militant camp which set camp in the country.
The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant asserted its presence in Libya’s Sirte in 2015 though the jihadist group has some presence in other major cities including Benghazi.
Since the ouster of long time ruler Muammar Gaddafi, the oil rich nation has suffered blows from the Islamist militants battling to take control of oil rich regions if the war-torn country.
