ISIS 'captures' Libya's Sirte
The Islamic State group claimed to have seized full control of the Libyan city of Sirte from the Fajr Libya militia, including a power plant, according to a US monitor.
SITE Intelligence Group said the jihadist group had published photographs of "ISIS fighters engaged in clashes, sitting atop heavy guns, exploring the power plant and town, as well as bodies of dead Fajr Libya fighters".
The claim comes nearly two weeks after ISIS overran the airport in Sirte -- the home town of slain dictator Muammar Gaddafi -- in the group's first such military gain in Libya.
SITE quoted a report in which an ISIS division that calls itself "Tripoli Province" said "soldiers of the caliphate" seized control of the last locations of Fajr Libya gunmen in Sirte.
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