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What is Islamic State Khorasan Province?
Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) is Islamic State’s affiliate in Afghanistan.
ISKP was founded just under six years ago after representatives of IS made their way to south-western Pakistan to meet disaffected Taliban commanders and other extremists who felt marginalised within the jihadist movement in the region.
Charlie Winter, a senior research fellow at London University’s International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR), told the Guardian: “The trajectory of ISKP has been one of resurgence after a tough time in 2019 and the first half of 2020 … but they went silent suddenly since the Taliban takeover…
