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ISIS flees Benghazi

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ISIS militants operating in Benghazi have finally decided to leave the city after more than 2 years of clashes.

There are conflicting reports about the reason of their escape. Benghazi Shura Council said all ISIS militants in Al-Sabri and Qanfouda districts were given a safe corridor by Dignity Operation fighters to leave from the western gate of the city, while Dignity Operation claims that they had secretly escaped...........

Earlier in 2015, ISIS militants escaped from Derna, driving through a desert road for a distance of about 400 km to Sirte, without being intercepted by Dignity Operation checkpoints.
https://www.libyaobserver.ly/news/isis-flees-benghazi
 
Misrata Brigades under auspice of the GNA ( UN imposesed gov't/Tripoli) earlier this year drove ISIS out of Sirte -
with US bombing to help.

Operation Dignity is a general term for General Hiftar's army - based in the east. It's rival is the GNA in Tripoli; but more so ISIS and extreme Isamists. It's loyalty is to the HORepresentaives (Tobruk, etc.)

So where did ISIS go? Looks like the are now driven out of the coastal cites and fled south to ...?
 
annata said:
ISIS militants operating in Benghazi have finally decided to leave the city after more than 2 years of clashes.

There are conflicting reports about the reason of their escape. Benghazi Shura Council said all ISIS militants in Al-Sabri and Qanfouda districts were given a safe corridor by Dignity Operation fighters to leave from the western gate of the city, while Dignity Operation claims that they had secretly escaped...........

Earlier in 2015, ISIS militants escaped from Derna, driving through a desert road for a distance of about 400 km to Sirte, without being intercepted by Dignity Operation checkpoints.
https://www.libyaobserver.ly/news/isis-flees-benghazi
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The most likely reason is that the U.S. decided to stop arming and training "rebels" there after it became painfully obvious that "rebel groups" have always been radical Islamic fundamentalist terrorists groups. Without the U.S. sugar daddy around ISIS has nowhere to go.
 
reinoe said:
The most likely reason is that the U.S. decided to stop arming and training "rebels" there after it became painfully obvious that "rebel groups" have always been radical Islamic fundamentalist terrorists groups. Without the U.S. sugar daddy around ISIS has nowhere to go.
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US never trained rebels in Libya -all we did was destroy it along with NATO in 2011. The US does have CIA there again -like we did under Qaddafi.

This was the Libyan National Army Libyan National Army
which is not based out of Tripoli.Libya has 2 or 3 rival governments; depending how you count them

In Libya 'there are no winners today' - News from Al Jazeera
 
background on the current civil war ( 2014 ~ Present) which came about form the US/NATO overthrow of Qaddafi during the Libyan war of 2011.
It's how ISIS became viable in Libya -relevance to the topic at hand

» Libyan Civil War
Libya’s second civil war, which erupted in mid-2014, is often mischaracterized as a conflict between two camps, each with its own parliament and government. The reality is considerably more complicated. The actors in Libya’s toxic mix of conflicts include a plethora of largely autonomous local militias, a variety of jihadi groups, and regional powers backing their preferred Libyan clients. The two loose alliances that emerged in 2014 turned out to be fleeting phenomena. Over the past year, divisions in both camps have taken center stage.
 
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