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Tripoli - A Libyan official says Islamic State militants have attacked troops guarding an oil field near the central coast, prompting a counterattack by the Islamist-backed government in Tripoli that involved airstrikes.
Mashallah al-Zewi, the oil minister in the Tripoli-based government, did not have details on Wednesday on the number of deaths from the overnight fighting at the al-Dhahra oil field south of Sirte.
Libya's internationally recognised government has been confined to the Far East since Islamist-allied militias seized Tripoli last year and revived an earlier government.
