what is the Islamic State of Khorasan

Khan’s second in command was Abdul Rauf Aliza, a former Afghan Taliban who, like their leader, was killed during US operations in Afghanistan.

Faced with the announcement of the departure of troops from Washington DC and NATO from the country, the current members of the Afghan branch of the Islamic State reappeared on Thursday with a double attack claimed in the last hours by the group’s leadership terrorist.

Khorasan is a region that encompasses not only Afghanistan, but also Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. As the Taliban regime seeks local government, ISIS reaffirms its intentions to transcend borders in the Middle East.

The reappearance of “ISIS K” in Afghanistan suggests that the organization has more scope for movement there than in Iran or Syria, where in previous years it has wreaked havoc. In fact, in February 2020, the Taliban regime pledged in writing to the United States government not to allow this group to proliferate in the country.

With the divorced reality of what was signed in 2020, Afghanistan is living on Thursday a tragic day with more than 13 dead and dozens injured after the explosion of two bombs at the airport in Kabul, its capital, in a few hours when thousands of people try to flee the country before the arrival of the Taliban to power.

In the case of “ISIS K”, in 2020 they carried out an attack on a maternity hospital in a district of Kabul where the population mainly belongs to the Hazara ethnic group (Shiite Muslims +, persecuted both in Pakistan and in Afghanistan).

At the time, the weakened Afghan government blamed the Taliban force instead of acknowledging the return of the Islamic State, which claimed responsibility for the attack, and months later President Ashraf Ghani fled the country , reversed.