As The 'Caliphate' Collapses, Extremists Eye North Africa
By John McLaughlin -- February 7, 2018
With
the high-profile, headline-grabbing ISIS “caliphate” in Iraq and Syria
mostly dismantled, it’s tempting to think that a good deal of steam has
gone out of the terrorist movement. But ISIS survives in scattered
enclaves there, globally and online. Meanwhile, al-Qaida is reviving in
several parts of the world, and most of the larger strategic factors
that gave rise to these movements are still at play.
Intelligence
services and the U.S. military worry rightly about cleaning up ISIS and
al-Qaida remnants and other terrorist offshoots in the Middle East and
monitoring their movement to neighboring regions. None is more worrisome
or riper for terrorist exploitation than the nearby region of North
Africa (the Maghreb and Egypt) and the band of states to its south, the
so-called Sahel. http://www.ozy.com/opinion/as-the-caliphate-collapses-extremists-eye-north-africa/83749
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