different "affiliate" of course there..AQIM doesn't get much press but it's linking up with ISIS in Libya remnants.And taken over a town in the Philippines.
But Russians.
That makes a contiguous terrorist presense from Iraq/Syria thru Egypt ( Sinai Province) , Libya, and the Sahel and west Africa
ISIS regrouping in southern Libya with support of al-Qaeda and preparing for further attacks'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...ern-libya-support-al-qaeda-preparing-attacks/
Isil is regrouping in southern Libya with the support of al-Qaeda and preparing for further attacks, according to the Libyan defence minister, who claimed the effort was being spearheaded by Mokhtar Belmokhtar {below}, one of the world's most wanted men.
The unholy alliance of the world’s two most dangerous terrorist groups in Libya is at odds with the public animosity between al-Qaeda and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) leadership.
Ayman Al Zawahiri, the head of al-Qaeda, recently launched a blistering public attack on Isil’s brutal methods and propaganda, branding them “liars”.
But in Libya fighters from the two groups are "actively co-operating", according to Mahdi Barghathi, the defence minister in the UN-backed government in Tripoli.