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First US airstrike in Libya in a year kills eight ISIS fighters

By Russ Read
Published September 20, 2019 3:21pm ET
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First US airstrike in Libya in a year kills eight ISIS fighters
Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido, center, who has declared himself the interim president of Venezuela, greets supporters as he arrives at a demonstration demanding the resignation of President Nicolas Maduro, in Caracas, Venezuela. | (AP Photo/Juan Carlos Hernandez)

American forces killed eight Islamic State fighters in Libya in an airstrike, their first in the country in nearly a year.

The strike was made in coordination with the internationally backed Libyan Government of National Accord outside Murzuq, an oasis town in the country’s southern desert.

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