Libya army chief warns of ISIL threat against Europe 

A top Libyan Army Officer, General Khalifa Haftar, says fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Libya will infiltrate Europe if the West fails to support Libyan forces with arms and ammunition. 

General Haftar, the army chief of Libya's internationally recognised government, said ISIL has seized control of at least two cities along Libya's long Mediterranean coastline and has a strong presence in several others.

It is the first major expansion from its bases in Syria and Iraq.

As a sign of the group's expanding reach, ISIL yesterday claimed responsibility for an attack the previous day on a museum in neighbouring Tunisia that killed 23 people, mostly foreign tourists.

AL JAZEERA