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| Isis commander linked to Sousse and Bardo Museum attacks in Tunisia targeted by US air strikes on Libya camp | |
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| The US has targeted one of the Isis leaders behind the terrorist attack that killed 30 British holidaymakers in Tunisia in a series of air strikes. | The US has targeted one of the Isis leaders behind the terrorist attack that killed 30 British holidaymakers in Tunisia in a series of air strikes. |
| There has been no confirmation of the death of Noureddine Chouchane but he was believed to be at a camp in the group’s territories in neighbouring Libya that was struck early this morning. | There has been no confirmation of the death of Noureddine Chouchane but he was believed to be at a camp in the group’s territories in neighbouring Libya that was struck early this morning. |
| An official told the New York Times that American fighter jets hit the stronghold near Sabratha, west of Tripoli, and killed dozens of Isis recruits. | |
| Chouchane had been linked to June’s hotel attack in Sousse, which killed 38 people, and the massacre that killed 22 people at the Bardo National Museum in Tunis. | Chouchane had been linked to June’s hotel attack in Sousse, which killed 38 people, and the massacre that killed 22 people at the Bardo National Museum in Tunis. |
| He was wanted by Tunisian authorities alongside four other men, including one who was arrested near the Libyan border last May. | |
| The US Central Command has not yet replied to the Independent’s request for information. | |
| The head of Sabratha municipality, Hussein al-Thwadi, told Reuters that planes struck at around 3.30am, hitting a building in the Qasr Talil district. | |
| He said 41 people had been killed and six wounded but the death toll could not be confirmed and estimates varied this morning. | |
| The Sabratha Media Center, a Facebook page run by activists, said more than 50 people were killed including a “number of foreigners”. | |
| They were believed to be inside a farmhouse a few miles outside of the city, in an area that was overrun by Isis in December. | |
| Sabratha, exchanged between government forces and rebels during the Libyan civil war, houses a Unesco world heritage site and is home to one of the world’s best-preserved Roman amphitheatres. | |
| Isis’ expansion into Libya, which largely remains in a state of chaos following the overthrow of the Gaddafi regime, has raised alarm in the West because of its proximity to Europe and use by people smugglers sending refugees to Italy. | |
| The terrorist group was known to control a swathe of territory along the central coast around Sirte, but Sabratha lies far to the West, in a region previously split between forces loyal to Libya’s two competing governments. | |
| British, American and European intelligence services are believed to keeping a close eye on Isis networks in the country and Barack Obama has not ruled out intervention in Libya. | |
| “I have been clear from the outset that we will go after Isis wherever it appears, the same way that we went after al-Qaeda wherever they appeared,” the President told a press conference on Tuesday. | |
| “We are working with our other coalition partners to make sure that as we see opportunities to prevent Isis from digging in, in Libya, we take them. | |
| “At the same time, we're working diligently with the United Nations to try to get a government in place.” | |
| A previous American strike killed Abu Nabil, who the US described as a senior Isis leader. |