ISIS Now Has a ‘Colony’ in an Oil-Rich Libyan City Just 400 Miles From Italy
Despite facing a series of military setbacks throughout Iraq and Syria, ISIS is consolidating its control over a key city in Libya less than 400 miles away from the Italian island of Sicily.
Over the past year, ISIS has been deepening its presence in Sirte, a city along Libya’s northwestern Mediterranean coast.
ISIS jihadists first gained a foothold in Sirte in early 2015. Today, the city is an “actively managed colony of the central Islamic State, crowded with foreign fighters from around the region,” according to the New York Times.
Since October 2014, the jihadist group has steadily moved to take over Sirte and transform the city into the group’s capital in North Africa.
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