CAIRO—Libyan authorities on Sunday said they have found 18 bodies buried in a mass grave in a former stronghold of the ISIS terrorist group along the conflict-stricken North African nation’s coast.
The Missing Persons Authority said in a statement the bodies were unearthed in the Sabaa area of Sirte, a city in central Libya. The bodies were taken to a local hospital, it added.
Sirte, the birthplace of former longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi, fell under the control of ISIS terrorists between 2015 and 2016. The terrorists, along with al-Qaeda, gained a foothold in oil-rich Libya amid the chaos that engulfed the country after the 2011 uprising and a NATO intervention in the conflict….