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US military could deploy to Libya ‘any day’

After a week of rumblings that the US was preparing to arm and deploy Special Forces to Libya, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford, said on Thursday that a military deployment to Libya could happen “any day.” Speaking to journalists after returning from a NATO meeting in Brussels, as The Washington […]

After a week of rumblings that the US was preparing to arm and deploy Special Forces to Libya, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford, said on Thursday that a military deployment to Libya could happen “any day.”

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Speaking to journalists after returning from a NATO meeting in Brussels, as The Washington Post notes, Dunford outlined a “period of intense dialogue” between the US and Libya’s UN-recognized Government of National Accord, who seek to rid the country of a recent but pronounced ISIS presence.

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After a week of rumblings that the US was preparing to arm and deploy Special Forces to Libya, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford, said on Thursday that a military deployment to Libya could happen “any day.”

Speaking to journalists after returning from a NATO meeting in Brussels, as The Washington Post notes, Dunford outlined a “period of intense dialogue” between the US and Libya’s UN-recognized Government of National Accord, who seek to rid the country of a recent but pronounced ISIS presence.

Read more at Business Insider

Image courtesy of hereandnow.wbur.org

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