The Wall Street Journal quotes Rafik Hariri Center Senior Fellow Karim Mezran on how the rival governments in Libya created space for ISIS to grow:
“As all the attention of the two sides was on fighting the other side, this kind of group prospered in the political and military void,” said Karim Mezran, a Libya expert at the Atlantic Council in Washington. “There are no good guys or bad guys there—both sides have been acting in bad faith.”