This is the Corinthia Hotel in the center of Tripoli, the capital of Libya, the day after the attack on 27 January. Gunmen broke into the hotel reception where were the Libyan prime minister and an American delegation. At least nine people killed. The attack was claimed by terrorists claiming to belong to the Islamic State.
The deadliest attack against foreigners since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. Since then, Libya was divided into fiefs rival armed groups and with two governments, one recognized by the international community. In this chaos, Libya has become a haven for jihadists of the Islamic State. who now defy Egypt.
For the first time, Egypt has acknowledged having bombed the positions of IE in Derna, Libya's aviation did in Sirte and Ben Jawad.
Now Egypt is facing in the Sinai to the same threat. The armed group based in the Sinai Peninsula, Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, now renamed Sinai Province, leaves him no respite since the fall of Morsi. He also pledged allegiance to the organization Islamic state, and uses the same methods of propaganda based on terror.
Egypt was held away from the coalition led by the United States against EI, preferring to concentrate on its borders threatened by Islamist insurgents.
This is not the case of Jordan, that it is part of the Coalition. Jordanian bombers participated in strikes, and they have led the reprisal operation "Martyr Muath" positions against the jihadists in Syria, following the assassination of one of their pilots captured there.
Other Arab countries, such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates participate in strikes. But all think that this is not a fight against Daesh strategy. They helped the Kurdish Peshmerga, the only fight on the ground djidahdistes, to contain their advance in northern Iraq. But their light weapons do not seem enough against an enemy with a heavy weapons abandoned by the Iraqi army.
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