Demonstrating once again the convoluted, bellicose landscape of diplomacy in the Middle-East, the terror state ISIS attacked the home of the Iranian ambassador to Libya.
Militants set off one bomb at Ambassador Hossein Akbari’s residence in Tripoli followed by another 30 minutes later meant to kill first responders to the act of violence.
The Islamic State in Libya, as in Iraq, is filling the void left by the absence of two former despots, Qaddafi and Saddam Hussein. The U.S. embassy in Benghazi fell to extremists on September 11, 2012 after the 2011 fall of Muammar Gaddafi.