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Sirte (/ ˈsɜːrt /; Arabic: سِرْت, pronunciation ⓘ), also spelled Sirt, Surt, Sert or Syrte, is a city in Libya. It is located south of the Gulf of Sirte, almost right in the middle between Tripoli and Benghazi. It is famously known for its battles, ethnic groups and loyalty to former Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi.
Sep 18, 2011 · The Libyan port city of Sirte is Col Muammar Gaddafi's birthplace and one of the last holdouts of pro-Gaddafi loyalists. It lies half-way along Libya's long coastal road between the...
Dec 20, 2011 · Sirte and Misrata: A tale of two war-torn Libyan cities. 20 December 2011. All Sirte resident Hamid Mishri has left is a single mattress. By Jon Donnison. BBC News, Sirte. Scrambling over...
May 18, 2016 · ISIS has exploited divisions in Sirte that have festered since Libya’s 2011 uprising between loyalists of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi—a Sirte native who made the city his second ...
Jul 3, 2018 · Tunis, 3 July 2018—After the intense clashes of 2011 and the occupation of the city by ISIS (May 2015 to December 2016) which led to destruction and severe damages of one third of Sirte’s buildings and public facilities, the city of Sirte in Libya is seeing many of the damaged structures being occupied today with a strong determination of ...
Jul 8, 2016 · The battle to uproot the Islamic State in Libya (ISL) from Sirte, the group's de facto North African capital, may soon result in victory for the Western-backed Operation Binyan Marsous (Solid Structure).
Aug 21, 2020 · Already scarred by Libya’s 2011 uprising and a takeover by the ISIL (ISIS) armed group, Sirte now finds itself not only at the centre of a civil war but also a focus of geopolitical enmities ...
