In part II of the Investigative Project on Terrorism's three-part series on trends in global Islamist terror, IPT Shillman Senior Fellow Pete Hoekstra discusses how ISIS has exploited the failed state of Libya to create a caliphate from which it exports weapons, fighters and ideology throughout Africa. The continent has become an emerging battlefield in the war against Islamist terror.
ISIS Caliphate in Libya Spreading Terror throughout Africa
by Pete Hoekstra
IPT News
April 1, 2016
https://www.investigativeproject.org/5261/isis-caliphate-in-libya-spreading-terror
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