Aref Nayed believes the growth of the Islamic State has the potential to turn Libya into a global terrorism base. This week, Nayed is officially in Washington to update the US Institute of Peace on its 15-month-old partnership with the Libya Institute for Advanced Studies as well as meet with lawmakers to rally support in addressing growing extremism in Libya.
As the US Congress prepares to debate a new war authorization against Islamic State, Nayed presented a groundbreaking compendium of Islamic State incidents in Libya to key US lawmakers to rally support for action. The compendium, published by the Libya Institute for Advanced Studies’ Institute for Network Science, details Islamic State incidents — kidnappings, executions, etc. — in Libya since July.