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...This has included operations in Europe either directed or inspired by Isis-K....
...In the past year Isis-K has also staged deadly assaults in Pakistan and Iran....
...The US has indicated it believes Isis-K to be responsible for Friday’s attack in Moscow....
...But equally, the perpetrators are believed to be from Isis-K, which is Isis-Khorasan. It’s a sort of an Afghan branch of Isis that was organising this attack....
...The US, after all, did warn the Russians that an attack was imminent — which suggests that they have decent intelligence on Isis-K....
...Mentioned in this podcast: How Ukraine war distracted Moscow from Isis-K threat Infrastructure: from investment backwater to a $1tn asset class Israel cancels Washington visit after UN resolution demands...
...Tajiks make up a large share of Isis-Khorasan, or Isis-K, according to experts who monitor the group....
...While Isis-Khorasan, an Islamist group with Afghan roots, immediately claimed responsibility and Russian authorities soon captured and visibly tortured four Isis-K suspects, Moscow has blamed Ukraine and...
...Blockchain tracing firm Elliptic discovered that the majority of funds belonging to Ali Shafiu, described as Isis-K’s “apparent representative in the Maldives”, were held in Tether’s USDT....
...No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, but Sunni extremists such as Isis-K, the local branch of the Middle Eastern terror organisation, have consistently targeted Hazaras....
...The Taliban have launched counter operations but Isis-K continues to sow terror....
...Isis-K has also criticised the Taliban for engaging with the US....
...The US is not only supporting the mujahideen forced into exile, she claims, it is also, she contends, fuelling the activities of Isis-K, a jihadi movement threatening the Taliban’s grip on Afghanistan....
...The Swedish telecoms equipment maker’s handling of possible payments to the Isis terror group has wiped a third off its share price. 3....
...A third Isis-K member was injured. Isis-K has claimed responsibility for the Thursday bombing against US troops and Afghans desperately attempting to flee the country....
...Isis-K, an Afghan affiliate of terrorist group Isis, claimed responsibility for the attack, and Kirby said “thousands” of Isis-K prisoners were believed to have been released from two prisons recently taken...
...The Taliban itself has been targeted in attacks by the rival Isis-K, a local, Isis-inspired militant group, which considers the new government as sell-outs to the global Islamist cause and is eager to prevent...
...On the first day of play between Pakistan and Australia near the capital Islamabad, an Isis-K suicide bomber slaughtered over 60 people at a Shia mosque 100 miles away in Peshawar....
...The US military said a drone strike it launched in Afghanistan on August 29 killed 10 civilians, including up to seven children, reversing its initial claim that it had hit an “imminent Isis-K threat” to...
...Laghman, for example, is the birthplace and final stronghold of Isis-K, an Isis-inspired militant group fighting a low-level insurgency against the Taliban....
...The writer is a Senior Fellow at the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) in Singapore The attack on Kabul airport by Isis Afghan affiliate Isis-K provided a grim bookend for the west’s involvement...
...The Taliban are determined to fight Isis-K. But another Taliban affiliate — the Haqqani network which Taliban leaders put in charge of Kabul’s security — has suspected links to Isis-K....
...The first strike took place in eastern Nangarhar province, where Washington claimed an Isis-K “planner” had been killed....
...There is also a heightened risk on the ground from Islamic State Khorasan — an Isis affiliate in Afghanistan also known as Isis-K — following the troop withdrawal....
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