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The Taliban and ISIS-K the Islamic States Afghanistan affiliate are sworn enemies. ISIS-K claimed responsibility for the coordinated suicide bomb and gun assault which came just days after President Joe Biden warned that the group an affiliate of the Islamic State group.

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ISIS-K the name given to the Islamic State faction in the so-called Khorasan province a historical region covering parts of Afghanistan and Iran emerged around 2015 largely made up of fighters from the Pakistan-based Tehrik-i-Taliban.

Isis k. Department of State in January 2016. Kabul has been the target of the majority of ISIS-Ks most sophisticated and. Nobody expects that ISIS-K is ever going to unseat the Taliban and take over the country but they could very well play a spoiler role where they continue to do what we think they did today which is launch sporadic attacks in Kabul and the surrounding regions.

The US and the UK warned that Islamic State Khorasan ISIS-KIS-K was planning attacks amid evacuations from Kabul in Afghanistan. Since forming in Afghanistans Nangarhar region the group has repeatedly clashed with the Afghan Taliban at some points even seeing US war. ISIS-K was designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the US.

Since 2014 the splinter group has been mostly. The Islamic State group is located in Afghanistan and was formed after a faction with the Taliban. The CSIS reports that ISIS-K seeks to establish a Caliphate beginning in South and Central Asia governed by sharia law.

The two militant groups engage in regular attacks on each other a senior US. The CSIS reports that the US and NATO have conducted more than 300 airstrikes against the group since January 2017. CNNs Brian Todd explains the terrorist group ISIS-K the ISIS branch that rivals the Taliban in Afghanistan and could pose a threat to the American evacuation from the Kabul airport.

ISIS-K poses a major threat that experts say could be catastrophic. Here is what we know about the jihadist group. As its name suggests the group pledged allegiance to Islamic State IS formerly ISIS.

ISIS-K claimed responsibility for deadly bombings in Kabul that killed at least 12 US service members. ISIS-K is an Afghanistan-based offshoot of Islamic State the Islamist extremist group that has carried out terrorist attacks in countries around the world. What We Know About The Group Behind The Kabul Airport Attacks A regional Islamic State affiliate is a major rival to the Taliban in Afghanistan.

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. ISIS-K considers the Taliban noted for its brutality to be insufficiently devout in its adherence to Islam. ISIS-K is believed to have been responsible for a school bombing in the capital that killed 80 schoolgirls in May.

Concerns about security around Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul have increased based on a very specific threat stream from ISIS-K. As the name suggests Isis-K is an offshoot of the Islamic State terrorist group that once held huge swathes of territory in northern Syria and Iraq. ISIS-K and the Taliban are going to be in steady conflict for the foreseeable future Clarke added.

The group was all but destroyed by. The Pentagon is warning of possible terrorist threats from an Islamic State-affiliated group known as ISIS-K targeting the crowds of Afghans and Americans waiting to evacuate Afghanistan. ISIS-K is an offshoot of the Islamic State terrorist organization that established a sprawling caliphate in Iraq and Syria.

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