article_snippet: All this came in the wake of the group's rapid expansion across Libya, the group assimilation of a powerful Egyptian terrorist group, and the founding of small chapters in Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Algeria, where the group new affiliate last year beheaded a French hiker.
article_snippet: AQAP charismatic leader, Nasir al-Wuhayshi, al Qaeda's global number two, is extremely popular among the group's rank and file.
article_snippet: In November, CNN reported that ISIS was running several training camps in the Green Mountains between these two eastern Libyan towns where ISIS was instructing recruits from across North Africa, including Tunisians.
article_snippet: The three most powerful new ISIS affiliates are in Egypt, Libya and Nigeria.
article_snippet: November the Egyptian Sinai-based jihadi group Ansar Beit al-Maqdis pledged allegiance to ISIS.
article_snippet: Bolstered by the return home from Syria of Egyptian ISIS veterans, in recent months the Egyptian Sinai-based jihadi group Ansar Beit al-Maqdis has escalated the Egyptian Sinai-based jihadi group Ansar Beit al-Maqdis campaign of attacks against security forces in the Sinai and across Egypt and has put out the Egyptian Sinai-based jihadi group Ansar Beit al-Maqdis own gory beheading videos.
article_snippet: The threat the Egyptian Sinai-based jihadi group Ansar Beit al-Maqdis poses to Western tourists was underlined last summer when the Egyptian Sinai-based jihadi group Ansar Beit al-Maqdis killed an American oil worker in the deserts southwest of Cairo in a carjacking.
article_snippet: In Libya, ISIS is taking advantage of chaos and simmering civil war to rapidly expand.
article_snippet: Last autumn ISIS established a foothold in LibyaLibya, bolstered by the return of 300 Libyan ISIS veterans and the arrival of a top deputy of al-Baghdadi.
article_snippet: ISIS is now the dominant force in Derna, has a presence in Benghazi and controls part of the town center in Sirte, on whose beaches ISIS beheaded more than a dozen Egyptian Christians in February.
article_snippet: ISIS also has a growing presence in Tripoli, where ISIS fighters in January carried out an attack on the five-star Corinthia hotel that killed several Westerners.