Oil guards in Libya are getting ready to take on suspected Islamic State militants, their commander said Wednesday, following a third attack on oil fields overnight. In recent weeks, the North African country’s oil industry–once the lifeblood of its economy–has been in the cross hairs of an armed conflict. Colonel Hakim Maazab, who heads the brigade that is in charge of guarding oil fields in central Libya, told The Wall Street Journal that the Dahra oil field, about 500 kilometers southeast of Tripoli, was attacked Tuesday night by suspected Islamic State militants, hours after two other oil facilities were targeted by the same group. Col. Maazab said his brigade had sent reinforcements to the nearby Zella airport and a military aircraft had arrived to assist them. “We will go to Dahra today,” he said. A Libyan oil official familiar with the situation in the fields said […]