location: Sirte
notes: Bunyan Marsous (Operation Solid Structure) forces lost two men last night with nine injured in an IS counterattack. In a repeat of recent successes against them, a suicide bomber's vehicle was destroyed before it could reach its objective. One commander claimed that the militants had suffered heavy losses in their sally. Twelve fatalities reported (2 for Bunyan Marsous forces, 10 for Islamic State).
target_text: location: Sirte, fatalities: 12