New York Post

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The ISIS menace continues to grow — with Egypt the latest to face the prospect of allout war against the jihadis after a series of attacks Wednesday in the northern Sinai.

Meanwhile, lawenforce­ment agencies from New York to Los Angeles — worried about terror strikes by ISIS supporters or other jihadis — are stepping up security in advance of the July 4 holiday.

A Homeland Security official said there’s “no specific, credible intelligen­ce” of threats to US celebratio­ns. But ISIS has issued multiple calls for its followers to strike now — particular­ly during Ramadan, which runs until July 17.

Those calls may have spurred recent carnage in Tunisia, France and Kuwait. And now Egypt: In the Sinai, ISISlinked jihadis struck checkpoint­s and a town, Sheik Zuweid, which they’re reportedly taking over.

The death toll is as high as 70. And it comes just two days after a bombing in Cairo killed Egypt’s top public prosecutor, the highest official to die at the hands of militants since the new, antiIslami­st government took over two years ago.

Ever since that transition, Egypt has been battling jihadis in the Sinai, where an ISIS-linked group calling itself the Sinai Province has now taken control of several areas.

In nearby Gaza, Islamists sympatheti­c to ISIS have attacked Hamas, claiming the terrorists that run the strip aren’t pious (bloodthirs­ty) enough. Just deserts? Maybe, but the goal is to embroil Israel.

Here’s the global tally: Groups linked to, or inspired by, what President Obama once called a JV team have now spilled blood in some 14 countries and have been caught in plots in several others.

Nearly 10 months after Obama vowed to “degrade and destroy” ISIS, and 6¹/₂ years into his presidency, does anyone feel safer?

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