The US Pentagon said on Thursday that the so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL) terrorist group is making a last stand in the Libyan port city of Sirte, controlling only 50 buildings across two blocks, in what was previously labeled its stronghold. “It’s a stubborn area,” Pentagon ...
US President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday he has picked the tough-talking retired general James Mattis to be his defense secretary. The splash of hard news came during a sea of soaring — and then blunt — rhetoric from the 70-year-old Republican billionaire, who was speaking at his first post-election event ...
