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ISIS Festers and Grows in Lawless Libya

Posted: January 26th, 2018

Bottom Line: ISIS maintains a strong presence in Libya and remains a potent regional threat, despite domestic and international efforts to oust the group from its stronghold. After losing their former base of operations along the Libyan coast, ISIS fighters have regrouped and established training centers and operational headquarters in the central and southern parts of the country. Unless Libya can make headway toward forming a unified government, its lawless border areas will continue to provide fertile ground for ISIS and other terrorist groups to foment instability across North Africa.

Background: ISIS has seized on civil war and instability in Libya to establish one of its most crucial bases outside its former self-declared caliphate in Syria and Iraq.

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