4月26日CNN聽力：極度恐懼構造ISIS再度脫手利比亞難覓寧靜 美搖滾巨星Prince逝世再無明尼阿波利斯之聲
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It looks like the ISIS terrorist group is trying to gaina foothold in North Africa.
That's significant because ISIS is an acronym thatstands for Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
It's in those two Middle Eastern countries that the militants violently took over large chunks ofland in 2014 and that's where they hope to establish an Islamic called a caliphate.
But Iraqi troops with U.S. support are fighting.
And in Syria, ISIS has been hit by American and Russian airstrikes, as well as attacks by theSyrian government.
So, it's looking to some unstable nations to recruit and build its forces, and one of thosecountries is Libya.
ISIS is under a lot of pressure in Syria and in Iraq because of the military campaign by theU.S., but also quite frankly by the Russians and the Syrian regime.
And so, therefore, they've been losing ground in Syria and Iraq and are actually telling recruitsto go to Libya instead.
Why is ISIS heading to Libya?
New ISIS recruits are seeing Libya as an easier place to get into insurgency, to get into therealm of being part of the Islamic State and the reason for that is that it's much easier forthem to use the situation that's in Libya right now, that state of instability, the state oflawlessness, the state of their not really being any sort of policing force that would stop them.
That's why so many new recruits are coming in at this point in time and the U.S. says that theybelieve that the amount of ISIS fighters in Libya is somewhere between 4,000 and 6,000fighters.
That's a lot of fighters, considering that Libya is a country with a very small population.
In Libya, ISIS is strongest in the former stronghold of Moammar Gadhafi, in Sirte.
In that town, ISIS was able to unfold and they currently have quite a bit of territory aroundSirte.
They have about between 150 and 200 kilometers stretch of territory that they control.
What they want to control in that area and what's very important to them is to try andcontrol some of the oil and gas fields in Libya.
That's their main aim.
They want to have access to that because obviously it would make them very rich and verypowerful.
An internationally famous musician suddenly passed away yesterday.
The artist known as Prince, whose full name was Prince Rogers Nelson, died at his home inMinnesota. He was 57 years old.
Prince pioneered what's known as the Minneapolis sound.
It's described as a mixture of synthpop and new wave.
Some of his music was controversial and contributed to the creation of parental advisorylabels on albums.
Over the course of his career which spanned from the 1970s until now, Prince won sevenGrammy Awards and was nominated for 30.
The musician had cancelled a concert earlier this month after saying he wasn't feeling well.
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