Islamic State terrorists in the port city of Sirte, located in northern Libya, are learning to fly planes using at least one flight simulator according to military officials in the strategically situated North African state.
The sources were quoted by the London-based Arabic Asharq Al-Awsat as saying they aren't sure how the simulator got into the jihadists' hands in Sirte, the birthplace of Libya's former dictator Muammar Gaddafi who was deposed in 2011.
ISIS has in the past captured fighter jets in Iraq and Syria, leaving open the potential that terrorist pilots would head from Libya back to those countries in order to launch an ISIS air force of sorts.
The revelation comes the same Tuesday that UN experts released a report revealing ISIS has between 2,000 and 3,000 terrorists in Libya, and intends to capture more territory in the strategic state.
Concerns are high given that Libya is located on the Mediterranean Sea and provides a strategic point of transit to Europe.
