Alwaght- Three female extremist believed to be from Britain are urging Western Muslims to join them helping to open a new front for ISIS terrorist group in North Africa.
The women terrorists are believed to have been living in Libya since the summer.
According to the Guardian, the three native English-speaking women have been monitored for months by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a UK-based think tank, and are believed to be British.
They have been actively using social media to try to persuade ISIS sympathizers to come to the war-torn North African nation.
While female extremists have regularly encouraged women to move to Syria to start a new life under the ISIS terrorist group, ISD researcher Melanie Smith says that the travel of women to Libya in order to join ISIS is a dangerous tipping point.
“Where we see movements of women migrating, that represents the organization [ISIS] trying to consolidate their territory and state-build rather than just fight and conquer territory. [And] the more that you consolidate that territory, the more you populate that territory, the more difficult it is for that to change,” she said.
From its stronghold in Sirte, ISIS has pushed along the coast east and west, and south into the Sirte basin, the largest concentration of Libyan oil fields. More than a dozen fields have been overrun with engineers killed and at least nine kidnapped. Its second base is on the outskirts of Sabratha, west of Tripoli.
Reports say ISIS has expanded in the North African state because Libya’s elected government is battling an extremist group, Libya Dawn, which last year captured Tripoli, plunging the country into civil war. Sirte lies along the fault line between the recognized government’s forces in the east and Libya Dawn units in the west, both of which have fought sporadic clashes with ISIS.
Reports from Libya indicate that foreign volunteers are flocking to ISIS from Tunisia and sub-Saharan Africa.
UN envoy Bernardino Leon last week said that troubled Libyan peace talks were not yet over but acknowledged they were at a crossroads that might force him to step down as mediator.
Leon said the coming days would decide whether there was any future in his mission to broker a deal between the North African nation's rival parliaments in the capital Tripoli and the eastern town of Tobruk.
He appealed to both sides to compromise so that they could tackle the rise of ISIS and Libya's emergence as a smuggling hub for migrants risking their lives to cross the Mediterranean.
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