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Joy Mejia

27 Aug, 2021

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There were 77 ISIS-K claimed or attributed attacks from January to April 2021 -- three times as many ISIS-K attacks in Afghanistan than that same period last year according to a June United.

Isis k afghanistan. ISIS-K is one of six or seven regional offshoots of the Islamic State - the K stands for the Khorasan region which historically encompasses parts of modern day Iran Central Asia Afghanistan. The group is also known as ISK or ISIS K. President Joe Biden mentioned the group Tuesday in his remarks about the US.

ISIS militants stand in line before local authorities in Nangarhar Province after they surrendered to Afghan authorities last November. The Taliban and ISIS-K the Islamic States Afghanistan affiliate are sworn enemies. ISIS-K will attempt to erode the Talibans governance and attack the Talibans.

ISIS-K refers to the groups proclamation of a Khorasan province spanning Central and South Asia with activities extending beyond the borders of Afghanistan to include parts of Pakistan. On May 8 ISIS-K attacked a school for girls in Kabul and killed at least 68 people wounding more than than 165 most of them girls according to a Defense Intelligence Agency assessment cited by. The Islamic State group is located in Afghanistan and was formed after a faction with the Taliban.

ISIS-K presents a serious risk to the safety of all citizens desperately trying to escape Afghanistan through Kabul Airport. In Afghanistan 819 civilians have been killed across 15 provinces with the highest levels of violence in Kabul and Nangarhar. With presidential elections scheduled for 2019 IS-K.

ISIS-K the Islamic States affiliate in Afghanistan has been identified as the biggest immediate threat to the Americans and the Taliban during the. ISIS-K claimed responsibility for the bombing of a bus July 29 in a Shia-dominated area in Herat city that killed four civilians and injured three others according to local officials. ISIS-K poses a major threat that experts say could be catastrophic.

Foreign policy think tank estimates that between 2015 and 2017 ISIS-K had launched nearly 100 terrorist attacks in Afghanistan and. Outside Kabuls airport on Wednesday. ISIS-K claimed responsibility for deadly bombings in Kabul that killed at least 12 US service members.

In a country where militant factions routinely used roadside bombings and shooting rampages against civilians ISIS-K emerged as the harshest. The security situation on the ground in Kabul significantly worsened on Tuesday due to new terrorist threats from the Islamic State branch in Afghanistan known as ISIS-K. ISIS-K has carried out dozens of deadly attacks in Afghanistan targeting schools mosques and women.

The Center for Strategic and International Studies a US. The longer we stay starting with the acute and growing risk of an attack by a terrorist group known as ISIS-K. But ISIS-K suffered successive military setbacks that began in Jowzjan a province in northern Afghanistan in the summer of 2018 according to a June report to the United Nations Security.

ISIS-K began operating in Afghanistan in 2015 according to a report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Isis-K - or to give it its more accurate name Islamic State Khorasan Province ISKP - is the regional affiliate of Isis or so-called Islamic State that is active in Afghanistan and Pakistan. 28 IS-K focused on Kabul and key provincial capitals during the October 2018 parliamentary elections and future attacks are likely to follow a similar pattern.

ISIS-K has also regularly battled with Taliban forces. The Afghanistan affiliate takes its name from the Khorasan Province a region that covered much of Afghanistan Iran and central Asia in the Middle Ages. The K in ISIS-K stands for Khorasan the Islamic State in Iraq and Syrias affiliate in Pakistan and Afghanistan where US-led forces have fought Taliban and al-Qaida militants since 2001.

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