article_snippet: High unemployment has created frustrations among the young and a significant number have looked for answers in radical Islam.
article_snippet: Political opening in Tunisia has given radicals more breathing room, radicals numbers swollen by the release hardened Islamist militants during the 2011 Tunisian revolution that swept away decades of autocratic rule.
article_snippet: Jihad has been the single biggest factor in the worsening security situation in Tunisia.
article_snippet: Tunisian security officials are worried about spillover from an increasingly chaotic Libya.  
article_snippet: ISIS has taken advantage of a simmering civil war in Tunisia's neighbor to rapidly expand.
article_snippet: ISIS is now the dominant force in Derna in eastern Libya and controls parts of the town center of Sirte, the hometown of former Libya strongman Moammar Gadhafi.
article_snippet: And ISIS has built an increasingly significant presence in Tripoli itself, carrying out a gun attack on the Corinthia Hotel in January.
article_snippet: the group have been the most active terrorist organization in Tunisia to date," Porter told CNN.
article_snippet: Most of their attacks have been in the Djebel Chaambi region
article_snippet: There is also concern Tunisian security forces, traumatized by The museum attack, could once again embrace repression in repression struggle to contain the Jihadi threat.
article_snippet: The worry now is that Tunisia's security services will crack down hard on Islamists increasing tensions and making the problem far worse," Lebovich told CNN.
highlights_snippet: Terror has been percolating in the region for a while, stoked by regional unrest .