DefenceTalkMore than 80 Islamic State jihadists were killed in a US aerial blitz on training camps in Libya, including fighters involved in plotting attacks in Europe, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Thursday. The Pentagon made the highly unusual decision to conduct the air strikes with a pair of B-2 stealth bombers that flew to North […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-stealth-bombers-kill-more-than-80-is-fighters-in-libya-68859/

DefenceTalkThe United States has not decided whether to launch military action in Libya, where the Islamic State group is exploiting political instability to expand its operations, Pentagon chief Ashton Carter said Thursday. Washington is “developing options for what we might do in the future,” Carter told reporters. But he added: “We’re watching the situation very […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-no-plans-attack-isis-forces-libya-pentagon-66605/

DefenceTalkThe US is weighing potential military options in Libya as Islamic State expand their influence in the north African nation roiled by political instability, a Pentagon official said Wednesday. The growing IS presence in Libya is a “significant concern” and the United States is assessing how best to respond to the group’s “metastasis” from Iraq […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-says-weighing-military-options-in-libya-66589/

DefenceTalkWashington: A group of US special operations troops who had traveled to Libya to “foster relationships” was kicked out of the conflict-torn country soon after they arrived, the Pentagon said Thursday. A Facebook page belonging to the Libyan air force posted photographs of the men, who were dressed in rugged civilian clothing, including plaid shirts, […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-special-ops-troops-kicked-out-of-libya-66122/

DefenceTalkThe Arab League called for an “urgent” Arab strategy to militarily back Libya’s government against the Islamic State group on Tuesday, but stopped short of endorsing airstrikes against the jihadists. The Cairo-based Arab bloc issued its call after an extraordinary meeting to discuss a request by the internationally recognized Libyan government to adopt measures to […]https://www.defencetalk.com/arab-league-urges-military-support-for-libya-against-is-65041/

DefenceTalkBetween March and October 2011, a coalition of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) member states and several partner nations waged a war against Muammar Qaddafi’s Libyan regime that stemmed and then reversed the tide of Libya’s civil war, preventing Qaddafi from crushing the nascent rebel movement seeking to overthrow his dictatorship and going on to […]https://www.defencetalk.com/precision-and-purpose-airpower-in-the-libyan-civil-war-64864/

DefenceTalkCairo has carried out air strikes against Islamic State group targets in Libya after the jihadists posted a video showing the beheadings of 21 Egyptian Christians. Egypt said a “tough intervention” was needed and with France called on the UN Security Council on Monday to “take new measures” against the jihadists in neighboring Libya. With […]https://www.defencetalk.com/egypt-strikes-is-group-targets-in-libya-63134/

DefenceTalkBy targeting the Islamic State group with air strikes in Libya, Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, having crushed Islamist opponents at home, has become a key ally of the West against jihadists, experts say. His warplanes bombed IS camps and weapons stores in the Libyan city of Derna hours after the Sunni extremists released a […]https://www.defencetalk.com/libya-raids-turn-egypts-sisi-into-key-anti-is-ally-63131/

DefenceTalkMilitia fighters stole hundreds of American-supplied automatic weapons and other equipment in a raid on a Libyan base where the US was training local forces, bringing an abrupt end to the secretive program, a report said Tuesday. Elite US troops have been tasked since last year with covertly forming local counterterrorism units in Libya, Mauritania, […]https://www.defencetalk.com/libya-militia-stole-us-weapons-in-raid-report-59718/

DefenceTalkThere are still some ways in which newspapers capture the moment better than blogs or social media. One such way is their ability to display the full extent of global chaos, a topic so diverse and variegated that it is tough to capture on an Internet page or blog posting. So if you want to […]https://www.defencetalk.com/as-global-unrest-spreads-us-slashes-military-readiness-48772/