37 killed in U.S. airstrike targeting terrorists in Libya, mayor says

American warplanes hit an ISIS camp Friday in Libya where foreign fighters had been engaged in special, advanced training -- possibly, a U.S. official said, ahead of a terror attack in Europe or somewhere else outside the North African nation.

Noureddine Chouchane, a senior operative in the terrorist group from Tunisia, was believed to be among those from around Africa and the Middle East who had converged on the site. He is thought to have played an instrumental role in two terror attacks in Tunisia last year, one at Tunis' Bardo Museum that killed 23 people and another at a seaside resort in Sousse that left 38 dead. ISIS claimed responsibility for both massacres.

Friday morning's U.S. strike in the al-Qasser district in Sabratha, a coastal city in northwestern Libya where most residents are from Tunisia, killed at least 37 people and wounded six others, the city's mayor, Hussein al-Thawadi, told CNN.....................

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