(MENAFN- The Journal Of Turkish Weekly) The Daesh militant group on Wednesday claimed responsibility for a suicide attack one day earlier in eastern Libya that left one soldier dead and eight others injured.
The radical organization published photos on Facebook of the man who it said had carried out the attack.
It went on to vow to carry out further attacks against what it called "despots" and "infidels" € an apparent reference to the Libyan army backed by the Tobruk-based government.
On Tuesday, one soldier and one attacker were killed € and eight soldiers injured € when militants bombed forces loyal to Libya's Tobruk government in the eastern city of Qubbah, according to a Libyan military official.
A militant blew himself up inside his vehicle after it was intercepted by government troops at the city's eastern entrance, the official, requesting anonymity, told Anadolu Agency.
The official said that a soldier injured in the attack had succumbed to his wounds earlier Tuesday.
Libya's Qubbah city was the site of a major militant attack in February that left at least 44 people dead.
Three suicide bombers struck Qubbah's local police headquarters, a petrol station, and the home of Aguila Saleh, speaker of Libya's internationally-recognized House of Representatives.
Two of the three bombings were later claimed by a group affiliated with Daesh.
The bombings came in the wake of a series of airstrikes by Egypt € carried out in coordination with Libya's Tobruk government € against alleged Daesh targets in the Libyan city of Darnah.
The airstrikes ostensibly came in response to a video that emerged online purportedly showing the execution of 21 Christian Egyptian hostages by Daesh militants in Libya.
In recent years, Libya's sharp political divisions have yielded two rival seats of government respectively based in Tripoli and Tobruk, each of which boasts its own institutions and military capacities.
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