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The Canadian government won’t intervene militarily in Libya even as Islamic extremists continue to expand their grip on that war-torn country, sources say.

Gunmen associated with various Islamic extremist groups control parts of Libya or have set up training camps.

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Concern has also been raised that forces affiliated with the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS) are becoming more of a presence. ISIS sympathizers recently kidnapped and beheaded 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians in Libya.

Last month, in retaliation, Egypt’s warplanes bombed 13 targets in the Libyan city of Derna that were occupied by the ISIS sympathizers.

ISIS, in turn, launched three suicide bombings in the eastern Libyan city of Qubba. Those attacks hit the headquarters of security forces as well as the home of a senior government official. Forty-one people died in the attacks.

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has called on the United Nations Security Council to authorize an international intervention force for Libya.