Misrata Municipality and Military Council have issued a statement Thursday to call on the revolutionaries and brigades under the command of the GNC’s General Staff to be on great alert and to keep in touch with the Military Council as well as to always take a defensive stand in the city’s positions to ensure security and stability.

The statement urged the Fatwa House and Misrata preachers to shed light on the truth of the radical and extremist ideology of “IS”, asking Sirte locals and officials to have a clear stand against this terrorist organization by uprooting it from their city as well as by urging locals to disown and report those who would still back it up.