US envoy affirmed full support for Libya's anti-Daesh war

US Special Envoy for Libya Jonathan Winer on Friday expressed full support for the Libyan Government of National Accord's in its war against Daesh in Sirte.

"We join in supporting integrated approach by Libya to take on and defeat Daesh in Sirte and beyond," Winer tweeted.

In a recorded statement on Thursday, Prime Minister of Libya's unity government Fayez al-Sarraj said his ministers had started coordinating security arrangements with the army to start liberating Sirte, and were looking to set up a national joint operations room.

Daesh would be rooted out by Libyan hands and not through foreign intervention, he said.

The terrorist group has held Sirte since 2015, taking advantage of a conflict between loose alliances of armed brigades allied to Libya's rival governments to seize a 250-km strip of coastline around the central Mediterranean city.

Western states are hoping the unity government, which arrived in Tripoli last month, will be able to make Libya's armed factions work together against Daesh, and have said they are ready to provide training for Libyan forces if requested by the unity government.

Source: MENA