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.

Islamists Tighten Grip in Africa
by Pete Hoekstra
June 15, 2016

Islamic State Has a Major Opportunity in Libya
by Olivier Guitta
January 21, 2020

Southern Libya: Terrorists' Next Frontier
by Hany Ghoraba
March 21, 2018