US forces conducted Wednesday night airstrikes on al-Qaeda targets in the Libyan town of Ubari, according to the statement of spokesman for Libya’s Government of National Accord (GNA) Mohammed al-Salak.
“A site where a number of members of al-Qaeda were stationed on the outskirts of the city of Ubari, southwestern Libya, was bombed on Wednesday evening,” the spokesperson for the internationally-recognized GNA said.
Salak added that the strikes are part of ongoing cooperation between Libya and the US to “combat terrorism.”
He did not reveal further details on the site that the airstrikes targeted or the results.
The US has backed the west-based Presidency Council by airstrikes against al-Qaeda, while no such support has been provided to the Libyan National Army (LNA), led by Khalifa Haftar, during its war against IS militants in eastern and central Libya.
The latest Africom airstrike was launched on 29 November against al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), near al-Uwaynat town, located at Libyan’s southwestern desert, killing 11 “terrorists.”
