Libyan Journalist: People In Benghazi ‘Divided’ Over How To Stop ISIS

Libyan Journalist: People In Benghazi ‘Divided’ Over How To Stop ISIS

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NPR’s Kelly McEvers talks with Omar al-Mosmary, a Libyan journalist based in Benghazi, about how life there is impacted by the Islamic State and other violent factions. He says half the city that was controlled by al-Qaida is now controlled by Islamic State. No one lives there except for fighters and their families. The residents who were living there have crowded into the rest of town.

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