The biggest single issuebehind the rise of terrorism across Afghanistan , Iraq , Syria , Yemen , Libya , Somalia and Nigeria is that all of these states are either in chaos or ruled by repressive regimes with corrupt or non - existent police and armies . In order to adequately tackle of continuing rise of ISIS this journalist argues that " it is the destruction of political prospects and the smothering of any chance at freedom and fair economic opportunity that leads to extremist violence in the first place . "
The biggest single issuebehind the rise of ISIS across Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Libya, Somalia and Nigeria is that all of these states are either in chaos or run by repressive regimes with corrupt or non-existent governments and armies. In order to adequately tackle of continuing expansion of ISIS this journalist argues that "it is the lack of political prospects and the smothering of any attempt at freedom and fair economic opportunity that lead to extremist violence in the first place."