Get ready to hear a lot about ISIS-K between now and August 31. ISIS-K has claimed responsibility for the deadly bombing attacks outside Kabul airport on Thursday which targeted a frantic Western evacuation operation and killed 13.
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Isis-k attacks. ISIS-K claimed responsibility for the. 9 hr 52 min ago Intelligence of ISIS-K attack now much firmer says UK armed forces minister. 26 2021 has left at least 60 people dead including at least a dozen US.
According to a US security think-tank the Centre for Strategic and International Studies CSIS Isis-K launched a hundred attacks on civilians in. An attack on a crowd gathered outside Kabuls airport on Aug. ISIS-K attacks expected to continue US military commander confirms.
ISIS-K and the Taliban which controls Kabul outside of the airport are sworn enemies with a long history of battling each other. More ISIS-K attacks in Kabul likely. ISIS-K also took.
ISIS-Ks ranks swelled to an all-time high of between 3000 and 4000 in 2016 amid the widespread capture of terrorism in Syria and Iraq by ISIS and a rash of international attacks including. White House correspondent for Fox News Jacqui Heinrich reported on Thursday that there are hundreds of ISIS-K in the vicinity of the Kabul airport and that attacks are likely to continue. ISIS-K is an Afghanistan-based offshoot of Islamic State the Islamist extremist group that established what it called a caliphate in Syria and Iraq in 2014 and has carried out terrorist attacks.
26 2021 has left at least 60 people dead including at least a dozen US. During pitched battles in which the Taliban fought against Afghan government. ISIS-K school attack.
And Thursdays ISIS-K attack with its signature blend of complexity and cruelty was widely seen as a reminder to both the Americans and the Taliban that no matter who was in the presidential palace Afghanistan would remain contested The Washington Post. Created six years ago by disaffected Pakistani Taliban ISIS-K has carried out dozens of attacks in Afghanistan this year. ISIS-K the Islamic States affiliate in Afghanistan.
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 operating in Afghanistan was. 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. If ISIS-K were to attack Kabul airport it would have the double effect of harming western forces while at the same time undermining the authority of Afghanistans incoming Taliban rulers.
Islamic State Khorasan or ISIS-K is the Islamic States Central Asian province offshoot formed in 2015 targeting parts of modern day Iran Central Asia Afghanistan and Pakistan. Joe Biden mentioned the Islamic State offshoot in his speech yesterday as a reason to stick to his bug-out deadline in Afghanistan. Hundreds of ISIS-K militants have surrounded the Kabul airport and are expected to conduct more attacks a source familiar with the situation told Fox News.
Biden called them a sworn enemy of the Taliban and claimed that they are mustering forces for an attack on both the US and Taliban at the airport in Kabul. Central Command said ISIS-K a local affiliate of the Islamic State terrorist group was responsible for the attacks. It boasts only a few thousand fighters in its ranks but the Islamic State-Khorasan -- or ISIS-K -- has built its reputation on high-profile horrific terrorist attacks from a brutal assault on.
Marine Corps Gen. An attack on a crowd gathered outside Kabuls airport on Aug. From CNNs Amy Cassidy.
ISIS-K and the Islamic State group were once allied with Al Qaeda the terrorist group once led by Osama bin Laden that was behind the Sept.
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