Isis Archive

Arab Youth Survey finds declining support for extremist group but lack of jobs is seen as main issue driving terrorist recruitment Pro-Isis demonstrators, many of them young men, on a march in Mosul, Iraq. Photograph: Uncredited/AP The vast majority of young Arabs are increasingly rejecting Islamic State

Islamic State has greatly expanded its control over territory in Libya, and the militants are claiming to be the key defense for the North African state against foreign military intervention, according to United Nations sanctions monitors. In their annual report to the UN security council, which was