After losing its territory in Iraq and Syria, ISIS finally has a new haven where it is plotting escalating terror attacks that have already killed hundreds of people this year.
It was a little over two weeks since Mohammad Ali Raihani, 28, a student of engineering at Kabul University, had started a day job to provide for his brother and sister while he studied. On Jan. 6, an explosion ripped through the minibus taking him to the printing press where he worked, killing him and six others.
Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi visits one of the injured in the Islamic State attack in Kerman, the biggest attack of this year, in a Hospital in Kerman, Iran on January 5, 2024.killed over 100 people at a memorial for Qassem Soleimani “Over the past year, the group has benefited from increased operational capabilities and freedom of movement inside Afghanistan. It seeks to maintain the intense pace of attacks,” the UNSC report noted, adding that its member states had assessed ISKP as “the most serious current terrorist threat in Afghanistan” with growing local recruitment and movement of fighters from Arab and African States to Afghanistan.
The Taliban’s own failures in government are contributing to the surge in recruitments, the ex-official said. “Before the fall of the Afghan government, recruitment into all regional insurgent groups followed the same narrative, calling for a fight against the U.S.-backed government. But since the U.S. withdrawal and the Taliban takeover, ISKP has directed its efforts at amplifying its anti-Taliban propaganda,” he said.
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