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applegrove

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Sat Feb 13, 2016, 11:43 PM Feb 2016

The U.S. Might Be Getting Closer To Expanding Its ISIS Fight

The U.S. Might Be Getting Closer To Expanding Its ISIS Fight

by Akbar Shahid Ahmed at the Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/us-isis-libya_us_56be5310e4b08ffac1255c07

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WASHINGTON -- A deal to establish a central unified government in Libya may be reached by early next week, paving the way for the country to ask the U.S. and other international powers to act against the so-called Islamic State's presence there, according to a top official from the country hosting the Libyan peace talks.

Mbarka Bouaida, Morocco's minister-delegate for foreign affairs, made the prediction in an exclusive interview this week with The Huffington Post.

"We try as much as we can, as far as we can as Moroccans, to make a deal between them to find a solution," Bouaida said Wednesday. "We're still optimistic on this point. We think we can find a good deal, and they can maybe by the end of this week or early next week, find a solution to fix their government."

The minister predicted that if the warring factions in Libya do achieve that kind of settlement, they will ask for help from Washington to tackle ISIS.



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