Islamic State attacks Lybian oil port of Sidra, fails to take it

Islamic State attacks Lybian oil port of Sidra, fails to take it
January 5, 2016 - 12:54 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - Islamic State (IS) fighters have clashed with guards as they tried to enter Libya's oil port of Sidra, BBC News reports. Two members of the Petrol Facilities Guard militia, which is defending Sidra, were reportedly killed.

The militants are said to have been pushed back, but IS says it now controls Bin Jawad, 30km west of Sidra on the road from its stronghold in Sirte.

IS, which has been operating in Libya for about a year, failed to take Sidra in an attack last October.

In Monday, January 5's attack, IS fighters first launched a suicide bomb attack at a checkpoint at the entrance to the town, the AFP news agency reports, and that was when the guards were killed.

AFP quotes a colonel from the Libyan army saying that the port entrance was then attacked by a convoy of 12 vehicles.

Libyan news website Libya's Channel is tweeting that seven people have been killed in all: The two guards, four IS members and one civilian.

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