ISIL advances in Libya’s Misrata

Key crossroads and villages seized by ISIL along southern coast, prompting deployment of militiamen to counter assaults.

Advances by the Islamic State of the Iraq and Levant (ISIL) group along the southern coast of Libya’s third largest city of Misrata have prompted armed groups in the city to deploy militiamen to counter the offensive.

The mobilisation came on Friday after ISIL took over the Abu Grein crossroads, which lies 120 kilometres south of Misrata where the highway along Libya’s Mediterranean coast meets the main road south into the desert interior.

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Via: http://mwcnews.net/