It Cost The U.S. $8.8 Million To Send 2 B-2 Stealth Bombers Halfway Around The World To Kill 80 ISIS Fighters In Libya

US B-2 bombers (like the one seen in the above stock image) carried out air strikes against Islamic State camps outside of Sirte, Libya, on Wednesday night, killing dozens of militants, according to defense officials

Daily Mail: Obama spent $8.8MILLION sending B2 stealth bombers halfway around the world to kill 80 ISIS fighters in last military order as president

* Pentagon officials say B-2 bombers carried out air strikes against ISIS camps
* The attacks were focused on camps outside of Sirte, Libya, on Wednesday night
* It has been reported it cost nearly $8.8 million to fly the two planes used in raids
* The deadly airstrikes were conducted with cooperation of Libya's UN-backed Government of National Accord, and no women or children were in the camps

The US bombing strikes on ISIS camps in Libya that killed dozens of fighters cost almost $9million.

US B-2 bombers carried out air strikes against Islamic State camps outside of Sirte, Libya, on Wednesday night, killing dozens of militants, US defense officials said on Thursday.

Two US defense officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the strikes were carried out 28 miles southwest of Sirte against two camps and done in cooperation with Libya's UN-backed Government of National Accord.

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Update: The colossal price to fly a pair of B-2 bombers to hit two ISIS camps in Libya (Business Insider)

WNU Editor: Why send bombers halfway around the world to strike a few camps in Libya? I know that there are no U.S. aircraft carriers in the region .... and I can only assume that nothing was available in Europe to do the strikes that were needed against these targets. If true .... you will have to then wonder if the U.S. military is really stretched.