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US warplanes carried out air strikes against Islamic State-linked militants in Libya Friday killing 40 militants in an operation targeting a suspect linked to two deadly attacks last year in neighbouring Tunisia.
It was the second US air strike in three months against Islamic State in Libya, where the hard-line Islamist militants have exploited years of chaos following Muammar Gaddafi’s 2011 overthrow to build up a presence on the southern shores of the Mediterranean Sea.
Among those, Washington said it target was Noureddine Chouchane, a Tunisian blamed by his native country for attacks last year on a Tunis museum and the Sousse beach resort, which killed dozens of tourists. The Mayor of the Libyan city of Sabratha, Hussein al-Thwadi told that the planes hit a building in the city’s Qasr Talil district, home to many foreigners.