Rain is drizzling as we gather on the runway at the Stuttgart army airfield in southern Germany. It's 2:30 a.m., time for takeoff. A Dash 8 airliner is ready for boarding. The military plane will take us to Sirte in Libya. In 2015, the extremist group known as the "Islamic State"  turned the coastal city into its largest stronghold outside Iraq and Syria . Only after months of heavy fighting was it liberated by Libyan armed forces, with support from US airstrikes . But this was not the last

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