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Islamic State. The conflict between the different factions in Libya opened the door for ISIS to establish a foothold in Libya. ISIS has built up in Libya over the past year. In early 2015 ISIS seized the city of Derna where it made headlines with its release of a video of the execution of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians along a beach. 1. It's fighters have carved out a small enclave of territory along the northern coast of Libya - controlling about 100 miles of coastline. It is estimated that over 3,000 ISIS fighters are now in the area of the city of Sirte (sometimes transliterated as Surt or Sert). They have attacked oil facilities and police training centers. Their probable long-term objective is to hold terrain from which they can send operatives, extract money from oil industry, and provide refuge for fighters that may need to escape from Syria or Iraq (if things goe south for ISIS in that region).
Reports and Publications
ISIS-Libya (ISIS-L) - Counter Terrorism Guide
https://www.dni.gov/nctc/ftos/isis_libya_fto.html
Country Reports on Terrorism 2020: Libya, U.S.
Department of State, Bureau of Counterterrorism.
https://www.state.gov/reports/country-reports-on-terrorism-2020/libya/
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Endnotes
1. See "ISIS comes to Libya", CNN, November 18, 2014.
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