Islamic State Khorasan Province
security. Also ISKP, ISIS-K, IS-Khorasan, ISIL-Khorasan
The Afghanistan- and Pakistan-based branch of the Islamic State group, which announced its formation in January 2015, drawing many early members from the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan and the Afghan Taliban. The United States designated it a Foreign Terrorist Organization in January 2016. It has carried out attacks in both countries, including the August 2021 bombing at Kabul airport’s Abbey Gate, in which 13 US service members were killed.12
Linked from 4 pages across CUPA.
Sources
- ISIS-Khorasan (Foreign Terrorist Organizations). Office of the Director of National Intelligence, National Counterterrorism Center. Official
- Designation of ISIL Khorasan (81 FR 1983). American Immigration Lawyers Association (Federal Register notice), 2016-01-14. Primary document
