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Egypt’s ABM Declares Allegiance to ISIL, while Al Nusra Joins ISIL Alliance in Syria

 

The idea that terrorism is “in retreat,” as has been alleged repeatedly during the last few years, should have been totally discredited by now. Only recently, we have witnessed an attack on an Egyptian Navy vessel off Egypt’s North Coast; reports of successful intermediation between Jabhat Al Nusrah (JAL) and ISIL in Syria; the foundation of the Islamic State; the resumption of the insurgency in Mali; mounting pressures on the fragile situation in Yemen; and more graphic atrocities by Boko Haram in Nigeria.