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More than 30 people have been killed in a U.S. airstrike carried out against the self-proclaimed Islamic State. The strike, which came early Friday, comes as ISIS tries to consolidate its power in the country, and as Libya commemorates its five-year anniversary of the Arab Spring uprising against former dictator Muammar el-Qaddafi.

Is President Obama opening a new front in the war against ISIS? For answers, we turn to Eric Schmitt, national security correspondent for our partner The New York Times.