ISIS Claims Deadly Attack on Libyan Checkpoint

Smoke rises from a burning vehicle following clashes between members of the eastern-based Libyan National Army (LNA) and fighters from Benghazi Defence Brigades (BDB), in Ras Lanuf, Libya March 14, 2017. REUTERS/Stringer
Smoke rises from a burning vehicle following clashes between members of the eastern-based Libyan National Army (LNA) and fighters from Benghazi Defence Brigades (BDB), in Ras Lanuf, Libya March 14, 2017. REUTERS/Stringer
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ISIS Claims Deadly Attack on Libyan Checkpoint

Smoke rises from a burning vehicle following clashes between members of the eastern-based Libyan National Army (LNA) and fighters from Benghazi Defence Brigades (BDB), in Ras Lanuf, Libya March 14, 2017. REUTERS/Stringer
Smoke rises from a burning vehicle following clashes between members of the eastern-based Libyan National Army (LNA) and fighters from Benghazi Defence Brigades (BDB), in Ras Lanuf, Libya March 14, 2017. REUTERS/Stringer

Two soldiers were killed and three wounded at a military checkpoint in northeastern Libya on Wednesday, witnesses and officials said, in an attack claimed by ISIS.

A witness said about a dozen armed vehicles had been used in the dawn assault on a checkpoint 60 km south of the city of Ajdabiya run by the eastern-based Libyan National Army (LNA).

The attackers set fire to the checkpoint and one of the victims was burned inside his car, said Mustafa Boufjara, a spokesman for Ajdabiya’s security department. Images of the checkpoint showed charred checkpoint cabins and two burned cars.

In a statement carried by ISIS’ Amaq news agency, ISIS said its militants had seized a vehicle equipped with a machinegun as well as other weapons and ammunition.
ISIS militants have carried out several attacks on LNA checkpoints in recent months.

Ultra-Hardline have been trying to regroup from desert bases since losing their stronghold of Sirte, about 390 km west of Ajdabiya, last December.



Multiple Quakes Leave Casualties in Guatemala, Cause Landslides

Debris lays on the street after dozens of earthquakes and aftershocks were recorded in a matter of hours in Palin, Guatemala, early Wednesday, July 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Debris lays on the street after dozens of earthquakes and aftershocks were recorded in a matter of hours in Palin, Guatemala, early Wednesday, July 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
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Multiple Quakes Leave Casualties in Guatemala, Cause Landslides

Debris lays on the street after dozens of earthquakes and aftershocks were recorded in a matter of hours in Palin, Guatemala, early Wednesday, July 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Debris lays on the street after dozens of earthquakes and aftershocks were recorded in a matter of hours in Palin, Guatemala, early Wednesday, July 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

A series of dozens of earthquakes were recorded in the span of hours in Guatemala, leaving two dead when rocks fell on their vehicle, authorities said. Landslides left several others buried.

More than 37 earthquakes and aftershocks with magnitudes ranging from 3.0 to 5.6 were reported in Guatemala Tuesday afternoon, said Edwin Rodas, director of the National Institute for Seismology, Vulcanology, Meteorology and Hydrology.

The tremors resulted in the evacuation of buildings, landslides, and minor property damage, officials said, adding they were felt as far away as El Salvador.
The two men killed were traveling in a pickup truck on a local road in the department of Escuintla when the rocks fell from a hillside onto the vehicle, firefighters said, according to The Associated Press.

Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo said at a press conference Tuesday that the main epicenter of the quakes was in the department of Sacatepéquez, with aftershocks in the regions of Escuintla and Guatemala department.

At least five people were buried by landslides, but emergency responders were able to rescue two, he added.

The National Coordinator for Disaster Reduction declared an orange alert, the second-highest on the emergency scale.

The US Geological Survey reported a 4.8 magnitude earthquake at 3:11 p.m. local time, 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) southwest of the town of Amatitlán, south of Guatemala City, with a depth of 10 kilometers (6 miles). It then reported another 5.7 magnitude quake 3 kilometers (2 miles) northwest of San Vicente Pacaya, a municipality in Escuintla, in the south-central region of the country.

Another 4.8 magnitude quake was reported 6 kilometers (4 miles) northwest of Palín, also in Escuintla.