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D. American manned and unmanned aircraft have been bombing Islamic State fighters in several nations in Asia and Africa.
C. The line "To the shores of Tripoli" refers to the role the US Marines played in an 1805 battle against North African pirates who were seizing American merchant ships and holding the crews for ransom. Tripoli is also Libya’s largest city with a metropolitan area population of about 1.1 million people.
A. Last year, an Islamic State gunman killed 38 people – mostly British tourists – at a Tunisian beach resort. The attack also effectively destroyed Tunisia’s important tourism industry. Libya is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad and Niger to the south, Algeria to the west and Tunisia to the northwest.
B. Gaddafi ruled Libya from 1969 until he was ousted and killed in 2011. His fall from power was part of a series popular uprisings known as the Arab Spring, which began with the December 2010 ouster of Ben Ali in Tunisia. Mubarak was toppled in Egypt, and Saleh was overthrown in Yemen during the upheaval which sparked several civil wars that still plague the Middle East.