Sirte
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ISIS affiliate consolidates hold over Libya's Sirte
World | Aug 16, 2015, 07:52 AM ISTTUNIS, Tunisia: A witness says Islamic State fighters have consolidated their hold over the city of Sirte in central Libya, calling on residents to pledge allegiance over loudspeakers from its main mosque and desecrating bodies
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Libyan Fighters Capture Gaddafi Hometown Of Sirte
World | Oct 20, 2011, 05:21 PM ISTSirte (Libya), Oct 20: Libyan fighters drove the last holdouts of Moammar Gadhafi out of his hometown of Sirte in a few hours of fierce gunbattles today, then declared victory over the last major resistance
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Libyan Fighters Assault Main Gadhafi Base In Sirte
World | Oct 07, 2011, 09:35 PM ISTTripoli, Oct 7: Revolutionary fighters on Friday assaulted a convention center in the center of Sirte that forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi turned into their main base, in what commanders said was a final offensive
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Libyans Flee Siege In Gaddafi's Hometown Sirte
World | Sep 21, 2011, 08:23 AM ISTSirte, Libya, Sept 21: Families in pickup trucks stacked with mattresses and jugs of water fled Moammar Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte Tuesday ahead of an expected new push by revolutionary forces to seize the city,