Dispatch From Sirt: Goran Tomasevic Photographs Libya’s Battle Against ISIS | TIME

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Goran Tomasevic Photographs Libya’s Battle Against ISIS

Libyan forces are fighting for control of the ISIS stronghold

via Time: http://time.com/4434061/sirt-libya-battle-isis/

A veteran chronicler of armed conflict from the Balkans to Afghanistan to the Middle East and Africa, Goran Tomasevic has covered the instability in Libya over the last five years. But for the past three weeks, the Reuters photographer has been on the ground in Sirt, the ISIS stronghold in Libya where the U.S. launched a series of airstrikes beginning on Aug. 1. The pictures he’s made there provide a raw and intense look at the bid to retake the hometown of late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi from the extremists, who seized it last year and created their largest base outside Syria and Iraq.