In an article for Foreign Policy, Tarek Megerisi discusses how, despite the defeat of the remaining IS fighters in Sirte being all but complete, the victory is hollow because no united anti-IS coalition has been formed and the conditions which allowed IS to gain a foothold and thrive in Libya in the first place still persist. Indeed, if anything the country is more fragmented and divided now than when the Sirte campaign began back in May.Click here to read the full article.
Libya's Hollow Victory Over the Islamic State