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UN Special Envoy Defends Military Action to Combat Daesh in Libya

© AP Photo / Mohammad Hannon, FileIn this Friday, Sept. 14, 2012 file photo, Libyan followers of Ansar al-Shariah Brigades chant anti-U.S. slogans during a protest in front of the Tibesti Hotel, in Benghazi, Libya, as part of widespread anger across the Muslim world about a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad
In this Friday, Sept. 14, 2012 file photo, Libyan followers of Ansar al-Shariah Brigades chant anti-U.S. slogans during a protest in front of the Tibesti Hotel, in Benghazi, Libya, as part of widespread anger across the Muslim world about a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad - Sputnik International
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Daesh terrorist group can be driven out of Libya by military means, the UN Special Representative for Libya Martin Kobler said Thursday.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Daesh boasts 6,000 fighters in Libya, according to US intelligence estimates.

"The expansion of Daesh can be stopped militarily. There must be a military action that should be done under the united Libyan leadership," Kobler said at a press conference at the Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency.

A fighter of Daesh, also known as ISIL, holds an ISIL flag and a weapon on a street in the city of Mosul, Iraq, in this June 23, 2014. - Sputnik International
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Following years of instability since the overthrow of its longtime leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, security in Libya descended into chaos amid clashes between rival factions and the emergence of Daesh.

Reports began to emerge in recent months that Italy, France, the United Kingdom and the United States deployed or planned to deploy special forces in the conflict-torn country to assist the local military in combating the terrorist group banned in many countries including Russia.

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