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Libya sentences 23 to death for Islamic State operation

Story: Attorney General’s office said in a statement that one other was sentenced to 12 years, 6-10 years, 1-5 years and 6-3 years in prison, five were acquitted and three others were on trial. announced that he died before Islamic State’s Libyan branch has become one of the most powerful extremist groups outside its native territories of Iraq and Syria, riding on the turmoil and war following the NATO-backed uprising in 2011. In 2015, it launched an attack on the luxury Corinthia Hotel in Tripoli. He killed nine, then kidnapped and beheaded dozens of Egyptian Christians whose deaths were featured in gruesome propaganda films. After gaining territory in Benghazi, Derna and Ajdabiya in eastern Libya, the group captured the central coastal city of Sirte, which it held until the end of 2016. for enforcing a strict system of public morality backed by brutal punishments.