US Airstrike Targets Al-Qaida Militant in Libya

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Source: AP

The U.S. military says it launched an airstrike Saturday targeting a mid-level al-Qaida operative in Libya.

Pentagon spokesman Col. Steve Warren says the military believes the strike was successful and hit the target, but he did not provide the name of the al-Qaida militant.

Warren says he does not know where the strike took place in Libya, and it's not known if it was a drone or manned aircraft. He says there were no U.S. personnel on the ground in Libya for the strike.

Warren says the U.S. is still assessing the results of the strike.

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Algerian jihadist Belmokhtar killed in US strike: Libya's recognised govt

Benghazi (Libya) (AFP) - Notorious Algerian jihadist Mokhtar Belmokhtar has been killed in a US airstrike in Libya, the strife-torn country's internationally recognised government said in a statement Sunday.

"American jets conducted an operation which resulted in the deaths of Mokhtar Belmokhtar and a group of Libyans belonging to a terrorist organisation in eastern Libya," said the statement which was posted on Facebook.

The announcement came after the Pentagon said the US military had carried out a strike on "an Al-Qaeda-associated terrorist" inside Libya.

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