The advance of Isis in Libya scares Europe. According to American and Libyan intelligence, the city of Sire, on the homonymous gulf, could soon become a new headquarters of the caliphate very close to the Old Continent, and above all to Italy. News arrives from Cairo according to which the militia already count in Sirte on a contingent of about 5 men.
According to Wall Street Journal sources, ISIS aims to "generate oil revenues and plan terrorist attacks" in Libya. Sirte - where former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi died - is the first city under IS control outside Syria and Iraq.
In recent weeks, a "wave of foreign recruits" has reportedly arrived in Sirte, with families in tow, all coming from abroad. The advance in Libya of IS would have been facilitated - continues the US newspaper - by the deep divisions in the country four years after the revolution and the death of Gaddafi in 2011.
