{"id":67246,"date":"2016-08-02T11:27:55","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T15:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=67246"},"modified":"2016-08-02T11:30:17","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T15:30:17","slug":"us-launches-airstrikes-against-isis-in-libya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67246","title":{"rendered":"US launches airstrikes against ISIS in Libya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/08\/01\/politics\/us-libya-isis-airstrikes\/\">CNN<\/a>, the US has begun expanding their airstrikes against ISIS in Libya as we support the Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA) &#8211; the UN-backed unity government of the fractured nation, while the Libyan government tries to take back the Libyan coastal city of Sirte from the ISIS thugs.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The White House said President Barack Obama authorized the airstrikes at the recommendation of Defense Secretary Ash Carter.<br \/>\n&#8220;The President&#8217;s been clear that he will deny any safe haven for groups like ISIL or any group that tries to do us harm,&#8221; White House spokesman Eric Schultz said. &#8220;The strikes you&#8217;ve seen are consistent with that approach.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Aside from Iraq and Syria, ISIS&#8217; presence in Libya &#8220;is probably the most developed and the most dangerous,&#8221; CIA Director John Brennan recently told Congress.<\/p>\n<p>And Libya&#8217;s proximity to Europe could compound the problem. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Better four years late than never, I guess. There is a case in favor of pre-emptive strikes here. At least we&#8217;re not having the discussion about arming this side or that side for a change.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2016\/08\/02\/us-air-power-revealed-in-fight-against-isis-in-libya.html\">Fox News<\/a> says that the air strikes came from USS WASP;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Marine Corps Harrier jets launched from Wasp conducted strikes Monday along with unmanned drones from a location the U.S. military did not want disclosed, one official said. The strikes targeted ISIS militants in their stronghold of Sirte, a Libyan coastal city.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to CNN, the US has begun expanding their airstrikes against ISIS in Libya as we &hellip; <a title=\"US launches airstrikes against ISIS in Libya\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67246\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US launches airstrikes against ISIS in Libya<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}