Islamic state threatens more attacks on Libyan oil facilities

Islamic State threatened on Thursday to attack more Libyan oil facilities following an earlier attack on oil installations close to the Ras Lanuf terminal.

Islamic State threatened on Thursday to attack more Libyan oil facilities following an earlier attack on oil installations close to the Ras Lanuf terminal, where at least two storage tanks from the Harouge Oil Operations company had been set on fire.

A general view of the industrial zone at the oil port of Ras Lanuf in this file photo. Suspected Islamic State militants reportedly attacked oil installations close to Libya's Ras Lanuf terminal on January 21, 2016. (Reuters File Photo)

“Today Es Sider port and Ras Lanuf and tomorrow the port of Brega and after the ports of Tobruk, Es Serir, Jallo, and al-Kufra,” Islamic State fighter Abu Abdelrahman al-Liby said in a video posted on the group’s official Telegram channel.