Understanding the Islamic State Offshoot behind the Kabul Bombings
It’s no friend of the Taliban, but the Taliban will never restrain it from attacking the West.
August 27, 2021
Understanding the Islamic State Offshoot behind the Kabul Bombings
It’s no friend of the Taliban, but the Taliban will never restrain it from attacking the West.
The bombings in Kabul that took the lives of more than a dozen U.S. troops, and nearly 100 Afghans, appear to be the work of Islamic State’s “Khorasan Province” (ISKP or ISIS-K), the group’s branch in Afghanistan and Pakistan. In negotiating the current withdrawal from the country, the U.S. government has claimed that the Taliban might in fact restrain both al-Qaeda and ISKP. While ISKP and the Taliban have indeed fought in recent years, such a plan will never work, as Kyle Orton explains:
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