Libya – What a Difference Five Years Makes

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Residents of the sleepy coastal town slowly became accustomed last year to IS militants fuelling up their trucks at the town’s only petrol station or shopping for supplies at the local stores.

They watched with growing anxiety as IS’s reign of terror spread along Libya’s central coastline until it stretched for some 300 kilometres and encompassed eight towns and villages, including the major town of Sirte.

Made vulnerable by their town’s remote location – half way between Benghazi and Misrata – and targeted for its strategic proximity to several of Libya’s oil facilities, the people of Bin Jawad were powerless to protect themselves against their own inevitable takeover in early January.

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