Libya’s Petroleum Facilities Guard clashed with militants of the Islamic State near Es Sider, the country’s biggest oil port which has been closed for more than a year, according to the guards’ spokesman Ali al-Hasy.
Four Islamic State militants and two petroleum guards were killed in the ongoing armed confrontations near Es Sider, al-Hasy said by phone. An oil storage tank was hit by a shell and caught fire, he said. The storage tank is close to the oil port of Ras Lanuf, Mohamed Elharari, spokesman of the state-run National Oil Corp., said by phone
