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What is ISIS-K? Islamic State group’s affiliate guiding Kabul airport assault

The terrorist team behind the Kabul suicide bombing Thursday that killed U.S. Marines and dozens of many others and derailed the ongoing Afghan evacuation is a competitor of the Taliban — and even additional severe.

The Islamic Condition Khorasan, or ISIS-K, is the Afghan offshoot of the Islamic State terror team, which publicly beheaded international journalists and inflicted brutalities on captured Kurds and others in Iraq and Syria.

“They have a better proclivity to target civilians they regard as infidels,” Seth G. Jones, a counterterrorism professional at the Middle for Strategic and Global Reports, claimed of ISIS-K.

And the ISIS-K attack wasn’t just aimed at the Us citizens, it was also meant to embarrass the Taliban, the authorities said.

“This assault will glimpse poor to the West, but it can make the Taliban glance as if they are not in control of their own ecosystem,” explained Raffaello Pantucci, senior fellow at the Worldwide Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research at the S. Rajaratnam University of International Studies in Singapore. “It undermines the notion that they rule this place.”

Primarily based east of Kabul in the Kunar and the Nangarhar provinces in close proximity to the Pakistani border, ISIS-K experienced anyplace from 1,500 to 2,200 fighters just a few yrs in the past, according to a research by the Heart for Strategic and International Scientific studies from 2018.

Volunteers and medical personnel unload bodies from a pickup truck exterior a healthcare facility soon after two highly effective explosions, which
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Amos Vanbrocklin by — September 5, 2021 in Isis News Today
What is ISIS-K? Islamic State offshoot carried out Kabul bombings

WASHINGTON – Times right before the attack at the Kabul airport in Afghanistan that killed far more than a dozen U.S. troops Thursday, Biden administration officials had warned of danger posed by ISIS-K, a terrorist team that is a sworn enemy of the Taliban.

ISIS-K claimed obligation for a suicide bombing at Hamid Karzai Worldwide Airport. Among the lifeless had been eleven Marines, a Navy corpsman and one more services member whose company department was not right away determined. There ended up also various Afghan deaths and accidents. Biden vow to hunt down the culprits and U.S. officials explained the team poses a continuing risk.

“It would be tough to overestimate the quantity of unconventional problems and competing demands that our forces on the ground confronted the menace to our forces, specially from ISIS K is incredibly genuine as we have seen nowadays,” Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, commander of U.S. Central Command, stated several hours after the bomb attack.

ISIS-K is an offshoot of the Islamic Condition terrorist group that established a sprawling caliphate in Iraq and Syria. The group was all but destroyed by a U.S.-led marketing campaign but affiliate marketers have because emerged and drawn recruits from other nearby and regional militant teams.

ISIS-K considers the Taliban, observed for its brutality, to be insufficiently devout in its adherence to Islam. The two militant teams have engaged in attacks on every single other.

The Taliban, which took command of Afghanistan earlier this thirty day period, has been guarding the perimeter

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Amos Vanbrocklin by — August 27, 2021 in Isis News Today
‘Islamic State’ poses expanding threat across Africa

Final week, Niger’s President Mohamed Bazoum stated his nation necessary technological guidance from its European companions to fight jihadis. He complained of swaths of territory in Mali and Niger becoming taken around by the so-referred to as “Islamic State” (IS) — regarded also as ISIS — and its affiliates.

Bazoum’s reviews arrived as French President Emmanuel Macron introduced France would start off closing navy bases in northern Mali by the finish of 2021, such as the 5,100-member Barkhane force. “We are heading to reorganize ourselves in line with this have to have to halt this distribute to the south,” Macron informed reporters.

“Unfortunately, ISIS is so widespread in Africa right now that you can say it is throughout the continent,” Nigerian political analyst Bulama Bukarti told DW. “You are conversing about teams of international locations and subregions.”

Jihadis have taken management of major territories in the Sahel and the Lake Chad regions, which include parts of Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Chad and Nigeria. In 2018, the West Africa Middle for Counter Extremism (WACCE) described up to 6,000 West Africans who had fought with IS had returned home from Iraq and Syria after the group’s self-proclaimed caliphate collapsed.

“It was only a issue of time ahead of we would commence to see ISIS actions replicated in their dwelling nations,” claimed Mutaru Mumuni Muqthar, director of the WACCE in Ghana. He stated West African nations around the world with weak nationwide establishments and large unemployment costs for youthful people have eroded

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Amos Vanbrocklin by — July 16, 2021 in Isis News Today
Not Taliban, ISIS Or Al-Qaeda, But China Is Haunted By Another Small ‘Islamic Outfit’ In Afghanistan

As the US has withdrawn almost 90% of its troops from Afghanistan, the return of various terror groups like ISIS, Al-Qaeda and Taliban has created concerns in various neighboring nations including China. 

US’ ‘Omnipotent’ F-35 Stealth Jets Getting ‘Unaffordable’; Defense Department Says Need To Cut Costs

On July 6, the Pentagon announced that US withdrawal is more than 90% complete, two months before the September 11 deadline. The country recently vacated Bagram Airbase near the capital city of Kabul, which was a primary military base for launching what was called America’s war on terror.

This development comes amid the Taliban’s persistent efforts to capture a key city in western Afghanistan. Reports suggest militants now control almost a third of the country with making new gains every day.

On July 5, the Taliban seized control of key districts in the southern province of Kandahar, including Panjwai district, home to Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzadaas as more than 1,000 Afghan soldiers fled to neighboring Tajikistan.

China Deeply Worried, But Why?

The international community is concerned about the Taliban making a rapid advance before western troops leave Afghanistan, which will then become a breeding ground for other terrorist groups and organizations like Daesh (commonly known

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Amos Vanbrocklin by — July 8, 2021 in Isis News Today