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WHAT IS ISIS-K? ISLAMIC STATE AFFILIATE GROUP SUSPECTED IN THE KABUL AIRPORT
ATTACK
THE GROUP HAS CONDUCTED A STRING OF DEADLY ATTACKS, PRIMARILY TARGETING MEMBERS
OF AFGHANISTAN’S SHIITE HAZARA MINORITY. HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW.
Evacuations Continue After Kabul Airport Attack
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Evacuations Continue After Kabul Airport Attack
The injured were taken to hospitals in Kabul after two explosions outside the
city’s international airport left more than 100 people dead. U.S. officials said
the military expects more attacks and efforts to evacuate thousands would
continue. Photo: Aamir Qureshi/AFP/Getty Images
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U.S. officials attributed attacks that killed more than 100 people at the Kabul
airport, and an assault by gunmen, to Islamic State’s regional affiliate. The
Taliban, who seized Kabul on Aug. 15, are a sworn enemy of Islamic State, and
shot dead one of the group’s top leaders in Afghanistan hours after taking over
the Kabul prison where he was held. Here’s a look at ISIS-K.
WHAT IS ISIS-K?
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 in countries around the world. The K in ISIS-K
refers to Khorasan, the province in eastern Afghanistan where the group has its
headquarters.
Founded in 2015, ISIS-K’s core membership includes disgruntled members of the
Afghan Taliban and its Pakistani counterpart, the TTP. According to analysts who
track the movement, ISIS-K has also recruited heavily in Pakistani mosques and
madrasas. The group has conducted a string of deadly attacks in Kabul, primarily
targeting members of Afghanistan’s Shiite Hazara minority. Such attacks
include, according to the U.S., an assault by gunmen on a maternity ward in
Kabul in 2020, which killed 24 people, mostly women and children.
In 2017, President Trump ordered the U.S. military to drop the largest
conventional bomb in the American arsenal, the GBU-43/B, also known as “the
mother of all bombs,” on caves used by ISIS-K in eastern Afghanistan.
At the height of its strength, the group was believed by U.S. officials to
number 2-3,000 fighters, but likely commands many fewer today.
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