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PEACE campaigners warned against a return to war in Libya yesterday after the US killed 41 people in air raids.
Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said US F-15 jets flying from bases in Europe had bombed a suspected Islamic State (Isis) training camp near the western Libyan town of Sabratha early yesterday.
A witness in the city said he heard two explosions at 3.30am coming from the nearby village of Qasr Talel. He said a house belonging to Abdel-Hakim al-Mashawat, known locally as an Isis militant, was targeted.
While much attention is focused on Israel’s aggression, we cannot ignore the conflicts in Africa, stoked by Western imperialism and greed for natural resources, if we’re to understand the full picture of geopolitics today, argues ROGER McKENZIE
As US hegemony crumbles and Trump becomes ever more unpredictable, European powers cling to the pact’s militarist agenda in a bid to disguise their own increasing irrelevance, writes CHRIS NINEHAM