06/10/2017
Alliance Reports Capturing Libyan Migrant Smuggling Hub
An armed alliance involved in a three-week battle over the Libyan smuggling hub of Sabratha said it had taken control of the coastal city on Friday, Reuters reports. A group called the Operations Room and its allies have been fighting the Anas al-Dabbashi brigade, a major facilitator of migrant smuggling that recently said it had changed tack and struck a deal with the U.N.-backed government in Tripoli to stop boats setting off across the Mediterranean. ?Sabratha city has been liberated from the militias ? the Dabbashi militias and their alliance,? said Operations Room spokesman Saleh Graisia. ?Now the city is fully controlled by the Operations Room ... the militias have escaped to the...
