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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…