IS ATTACK IN LIBYA KILLS 3 SECURITY PERSONNEL – MINISTRY

TRIPOLI, Libya: Fighters linked to the Islamic State (IS) group have killed three Libyan security personnel in the country’s southwest, the interior ministry said Thursday (Friday in Manila). The attack on Wednesday, in the desert some 700 kilometers (430 miles) south of Tripoli, “targeted a patrol of the Umm al-Aranib Martyrs’ Brigade, killing three of its members,” the ministry said in a statement. IS had on Monday claimed it had attacked the same brigade in the same area a week earlier, killing two members. Libya has been roiled by lawlessness since the 2011 fall of despot Moammar Gadhafi, with an array of armed groups vying for control.