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British Troops Headed to Tunisia to Keep ISIS Off Libya Border

• AntiWar.com

British Defense Minister Michael Fallon today announced that his nation will be sending a team of ground troops to Tunisia to join that nation's Libyan border defense operations, aiming to keep ISIS from infiltrating across the border.

The first deployment will be only 20 troops, nominally "trainers," but Fallon talked up the need to keep ISIS out of Tunisia and hinted that this might just be the first step, adding that Britain is also "urgently" helping to try to form a new unity government in Libya.

Fallon also suggested that once there was a new government in place in Libya, Britain would be open to more expansive military action there, at the invitation of this new faction they are working to install.


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