Leaked ISIS ‘heat map’ shows terror network growing worldwide

Leaked ISIS ‘heat map’ shows terror network growing worldwide

ISLAMIC State’s global terror network has almost trebled in two years, a leaked counterterrorism map reveals.

ISIS – also known as Daesh – now has “branches” in 18 countries, a briefing map prepared for US president Barack Obama reveals.

This is almost a three-fold increase on 2014, when the terror group operated in just seven countries.

The death cult has also inspired “lone wolf” terror attacks in other countries – including Britain.

RAF air strikes have forced Islamic State on the retreat in its so-called caliphate across Syria and Iraq.

But the map – prepared by the National Counterterrorism Center this month – shows it also has “official” branches in Egypt, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Libya, Nigeria and the Caucasus area to the south of the Russian Federation.

There are also “aspiring” branches in Indonesia, Mali, the Philippines, Somalia and Bangladesh.