Getting Serious about North Africa (Ahmed Charai, FPRI)

A​ growing number of terrorist attacks in the United States and Europe have a North African connection -- yet Washington policymakers continue to pay far less attention to the region than is warranted. ISIS and al-Qaeda, by contrast, regard the area as a primary focus of their strategy. North Africa is becoming a new Afghanistan: in large part, a mosaic of failed and failing states, and fertile territory for radical Islamists to gather recruits, train them, and harden them with continuous combat. Once proficient and confident in the art of war, these terrorists carry out attacks around the world.

http://www.fpri.org/articles/2016/02/getting-serious-about-north-africa