CNN News:伊斯兰国转战利比亚“招兵买马”

I`m Carl Azuz, bringing you ten minutes of current events from around the world. Thanks for watching.

大家好，我是卡尔·阿祖兹，十分钟全球新闻，谢谢大家观看。

It looks like the ISIS terrorist group is trying to gain a foothold in North Africa. That`s significant because ISIS is an acronym that stands for Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. It`s in those two Middle Eastern countries that the militants violently took over large chunks of land in 2014 and that`s where they hope to establish an Islamic called a caliphate.

伊斯兰国恐怖组织试图夺回在北非的据点。这具有重要的意义，因为ISIS是伊拉克和叙利亚伊斯兰国的缩写。2014年，伊斯兰国武装分子占领了中东大部分领域，希望在这里建立一个名叫“哈里发”的伊斯兰国家。

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 the Syrian government. So, it`s looking to some unstable nations to recruit and build its forces, and one of those countries is Libya.

但是，在美国的支持下，伊拉克军队一直在奋起反抗。在叙利亚，伊斯兰国遭到美国和俄罗斯空军的袭击以及叙利亚政府的打击。所以，利比亚等一些不稳定的国家应招募并建立自己的军队。

ISIS is under a lot of pressure in Syria and in Iraq because of the military campaign by the U.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 recruits to go to Libya instead.

由于美国的军事行动，以及俄罗斯和叙利亚政府的打击，伊斯兰国在叙利亚和伊拉克亚压力重重。因此，伊斯兰国在叙利亚和伊拉克屡屡失利，现在，ISIS要将重点转移到利比亚，招募新兵。

Why is ISIS heading to Libya?

为什么ISIS要前往利比亚呢?

New ISIS recruits are seeing Libya as an easier place to get into insurgency, to get into the realm of being part of the Islamic State and the reason for that is that it`s much easier for them to use the situation that`s in Libya right now, that state of instability, the state of lawlessness, the state of their not really being any sort of policing force that would stop them.

伊斯兰国正在利比亚“招兵买马”因为他们认为这个地方更容易进行暴动，而进而可以将该地区划进伊斯兰国的领域。现在伊斯兰国认为控制该领域较为容易，因为现在的利比亚国家混乱、法律无序、同时没有任何的警备力量可以对阻碍他们的军事行动。

That`s why so many new recruits are coming in at this point in time and the U.S. says that they believe that the amount of ISIS fighters in Libya is somewhere between 4,000 and 6,000 fighters. That`s a lot of fighters, considering that Libya is a country with a very small population.

这就是为何伊斯兰国现在在利比亚招募新兵。美国认为，现在伊斯兰国在叙利亚约有4000-6000名士兵。由于利比亚人口稀少，军队达到这个数量人数已经非常之多。

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 around Sirte. They have about between 150 and 200 kilometers stretch of territory that they control.

在利比亚，伊斯兰国在Moammar Gadhafi的前据点、以及在苏尔特军事力量最强。ISIS 可以在该城镇进行军事部署，并且已经占领了苏尔特很多领土。目前他们已经控制了约有150—200公里领土。

What they want to control in that area and what`s very important to them is to try and control 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 very powerful.

实际上，伊斯兰国想要控制的是对他们具有重要意义的石油以及天然气。这才是他们的主要目的。因为获得这些能源的渠道可以填满他们腰包，并强大自己的力量。