IS beheads 11 in attack on Libya checkpoint

BENGHAZI : At least 11 people were beheaded on Wednesday in an attack claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group on a checkpoint manned by forces of Libyan military strongman Khalifa Haftar. Haftar’s spokesman Col Ahmad al-Mesmari said “at least nine soldiers were beheaded... in addition to two civilians” when the jihadists attacked at dawn in the Al-Jufra region about 500 km south of Tripoli. Libya has been rocked by chaos since the 2011 fall of Muammar Gaddafi.