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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%86%D8%B8%D9%8A%D9%85_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A5%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A9_-_%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D8%AE%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86" title="تنظيم الدولة الإسلامية - ولاية خراسان – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="تنظيم الدولة الإسلامية - ولاية خراسان" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">العربية</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%B0slam_D%C3%B6vl%C9%99ti_%E2%80%93_Xorasan_vilay%C9%99ti" title="İslam Dövləti – Xorasan vilayəti – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="İslam Dövləti – Xorasan vilayəti" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target">Azərbaycanca</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs badge-Q70894304 mw-list-item" title=""><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isl%C3%A1msk%C3%BD_st%C3%A1t_-_Chor%C3%A1s%C3%A1nsk%C3%BD_vil%C3%A1jet" title="Islámský stát - Chorásánský vilájet – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Islámský stát - Chorásánský vilájet" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target">Čeština</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamischer_Staat_%E2%80%93_Provinz_Khorasan" title="Islamischer Staat – Provinz Khorasan – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Islamischer Staat – Provinz Khorasan" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deutsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraagi_ja_Levandi_Islamiriik_%E2%80%93_Khor%C4%81s%C4%81ni_provints" title="Iraagi ja Levandi Islamiriik – Khorāsāni provints – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Iraagi ja Levandi Islamiriik – Khorāsāni provints" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Eesti</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISIS-K" title="ISIS-K – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="ISIS-K" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ελληνικά</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estado_Isl%C3%A1mico_del_Gran_Joras%C3%A1n" title="Estado Islámico del Gran Jorasán – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Estado Islámico del Gran Jorasán" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%B4_%D8%AE%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86" title="داعش خراسان – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="داعش خراسان" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target">فارسی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tat_islamique_au_Khorassan" title="État islamique au Khorassan – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="État islamique au Khorassan" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target">Français</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%98%B8%EB%9D%BC%EC%82%B0_%EC%9D%B4%EC%8A%AC%EB%9E%8C_%EA%B5%AD%EA%B0%80" title="호라산 이슬람 국가 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="호라산 이슬람 국가" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target">한국어</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negara_Islam_Irak_dan_Syam_Khorasan" title="Negara Islam Irak dan Syam Khorasan – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Negara Islam Irak dan Syam Khorasan" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Indonesia</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISIS-K" title="ISIS-K – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="ISIS-K" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target">Íslenska</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISIS-K" title="ISIS-K – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="ISIS-K" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Italiano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%97%D7%95%D7%96_%D7%97%27%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%A1%D7%90%D7%9F_%D7%A9%D7%9C_%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%93%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%94_%D7%94%D7%90%D7%A1%D7%9C%D7%90%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%AA" title="מחוז ח'וראסאן של המדינה האסלאמית – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="מחוז ח'וראסאן של המדינה האסלאמית" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target">עברית</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isl%C4%81ma_valsts_%E2%80%94_Horas%C4%81nas_province" title="Islāma valsts — Horasānas province – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Islāma valsts — Horasānas province" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latviešu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%86%D8%B8%D9%8A%D9%85_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%84%D9%87_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%87_-_%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D8%AE%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86" title="تنظيم الدوله الاسلاميه - ولاية خراسان – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="تنظيم الدوله الاسلاميه - ولاية خراسان" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">مصرى</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamitische_Staat_Khorasan" title="Islamitische Staat Khorasan – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Islamitische Staat Khorasan" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nederlands</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISKP" title="ISKP – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ISKP" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">日本語</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Den_islamske_stat_%E2%80%93_Khorasanprovinsen" title="Den islamske stat – Khorasanprovinsen – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Den islamske stat – Khorasanprovinsen" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk bokmål</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%B4_%E2%80%93_%D8%B5%D9%88%D8%A8%DB%81_%D8%AE%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86" title="داعش – صوبہ خراسان – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="داعش – صوبہ خراسان" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target">پنجابی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ps mw-list-item"><a href="https://ps.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A_%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%84%D8%AA_%E2%80%93_%D8%AE%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%AA" title="اسلامي دولت – خراسان ولایت – Pashto" lang="ps" hreflang="ps" data-title="اسلامي دولت – خراسان ولایت" data-language-autonym="پښتو" data-language-local-name="Pashto" class="interlanguage-link-target">پښتو</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pa%C5%84stwo_Islamskie_Chorasanu" title="Państwo Islamskie Chorasanu – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Państwo Islamskie Chorasanu" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Polski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estado_Isl%C3%A2mico_de_Cora%C3%A7one" title="Estado Islâmico de Coraçone – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Estado Islâmico de Coraçone" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Português</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%8F%D1%82_%D0%A5%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD" title="Вилаят Хорасан – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Вилаят Хорасан" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Русский</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-si mw-list-item"><a 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province</a>, <a href="/wiki/Greater_Khorasan" title="Greater Khorasan">Greater Khorasan</a>, or the <a href="/wiki/Khorasan_group" title="Khorasan group">Khorasan group</a>.</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above fn org" style="background-color: #DEDFDE;">Islamic State – Khorasan Province</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader">الدولة الإسلامية – ولاية خراسان</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image logo" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #aaa"><a href="/wiki/File:Islamic_State_%E2%80%93_Khurasan_Province.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Islamic_State_%E2%80%93_Khurasan_Province.svg/200px-Islamic_State_%E2%80%93_Khurasan_Province.svg.png" 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href="/wiki/Abdul_Rahman_Ghaleb" title="Abdul Rahman Ghaleb">Abdul Rahman Ghaleb</a> <a href="/wiki/Killed_in_action" title="Killed in action">†</a> (Apr–Jul 2017)</li> <li>Abu Saad Erhabi <a href="/wiki/Killed_in_action" title="Killed in action">†</a> (Jul 2017 – Aug 2018)</li> <li>Abu Omar al-Khorasani <a href="/wiki/Capital_punishment" title="Executed"><img alt="Executed" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Skull_and_Crossbones.svg/14px-Skull_and_Crossbones.svg.png" decoding="async" width="14" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Skull_and_Crossbones.svg/21px-Skull_and_Crossbones.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Skull_and_Crossbones.svg/28px-Skull_and_Crossbones.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="510" data-file-height="490" /></a> (Aug 2018 – Apr 2019)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mawlawi_Aslam_Farooqi" title="Mawlawi Aslam Farooqi">Mawlawi Aslam Farooqi</a> <a href="/wiki/Capital_punishment" title="Executed"><img alt="Executed" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Skull_and_Crossbones.svg/14px-Skull_and_Crossbones.svg.png" decoding="async" width="14" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Skull_and_Crossbones.svg/21px-Skull_and_Crossbones.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Skull_and_Crossbones.svg/28px-Skull_and_Crossbones.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="510" data-file-height="490" /></a> (Apr 2019 – Apr 2020)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shahab_al-Muhajir" title="Shahab al-Muhajir">Shahab al-Muhajir</a> (Apr 2020 – present)</li></ul> Known leader: <ul><li>Sultan Aziz Azam<a href="#cite_note-alarabia.net-1">[1]</a></li> <li>Maulawi Rajab<a href="#cite_note-alarabia.net-1">[1]</a></li> <li>Maulawi Habib ur Rahman</li> <li>Dawood Ahmad Sofi</li> <li>Ishfaq Ahmed Sofi</li> <li>Mohamed Zahran</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mufti_Nemat" class="mw-redirect" title="Mufti Nemat">Mufti Nemat</a> <a href="/wiki/Surrender_(military)" title="Surrendered"><img alt="Surrendered" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/White_flag_icon.svg/14px-White_flag_icon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="14" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/White_flag_icon.svg/21px-White_flag_icon.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/White_flag_icon.svg/28px-White_flag_icon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="250" data-file-height="351" /></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qari_Hekmat" title="Qari Hekmat">Qari Hekmat</a> <a href="/wiki/Killed_in_action" title="Killed in action">†</a></li></ul> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Foundation</th><td class="infobox-data">26 January 2015<a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Dates of operation</th><td class="infobox-data">2015–present</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Split from</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Pakistani_Taliban" title="Pakistani Taliban">Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Achin_District" title="Achin District">Achin District</a>, Afghanistan (de facto, originally)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Active regions</th><td class="infobox-data label"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_the_Taliban.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Taliban.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_the_Taliban.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Taliban.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_the_Taliban.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_Taliban.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="500" /> <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a></li><li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Flag_of_Pakistan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Flag_of_Pakistan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Flag_of_Pakistan.svg/45px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/List_of_political_ideologies" title="List of political ideologies">Ideology</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Islamic_Statism" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamic Statism">Islamic Statism</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Part of</th><td class="infobox-data"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Islamic_State_flag.svg/20px-Islamic_State_flag.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Islamic_State_flag.svg/31px-Islamic_State_flag.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Islamic_State_flag.svg/40px-Islamic_State_flag.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="750" /> <a href="/wiki/Islamic_State" title="Islamic State">Islamic State</a><a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Allies</th><td class="infobox-data">Subgroups <ul><li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Islamic_State_flag.svg/20px-Islamic_State_flag.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Islamic_State_flag.svg/31px-Islamic_State_flag.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Islamic_State_flag.svg/40px-Islamic_State_flag.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="750" /> <a href="/wiki/Islamic_Movement_of_Uzbekistan" title="Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan">Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan</a> (since 2015)</li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Islamic_State_flag.svg/20px-Islamic_State_flag.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Islamic_State_flag.svg/31px-Islamic_State_flag.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Islamic_State_flag.svg/40px-Islamic_State_flag.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="750" /> <a href="/wiki/Jundallah_(Pakistan)" title="Jundallah (Pakistan)">Jundallah</a> (2014–2017)</li></ul> Groups <ul><li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Flag_of_the_Islamic_Renaissance_Party_of_Tajikistan.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Islamic_Renaissance_Party_of_Tajikistan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Flag_of_the_Islamic_Renaissance_Party_of_Tajikistan.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Islamic_Renaissance_Party_of_Tajikistan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Flag_of_the_Islamic_Renaissance_Party_of_Tajikistan.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_Islamic_Renaissance_Party_of_Tajikistan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="2400" data-file-height="1500" /> <a href="/wiki/Islamic_Renaissance_Party_of_Tajikistan" title="Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan">Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan</a> (claimed by Tajik government; denied)</li> <li>Tehreek-e-Khilafat (Pakistan)<a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Flag_of_Jihad.svg/23px-Flag_of_Jihad.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Flag_of_Jihad.svg/35px-Flag_of_Jihad.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Flag_of_Jihad.svg/46px-Flag_of_Jihad.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="500" /> <a href="/wiki/Jamaat-ul-Ahrar" title="Jamaat-ul-Ahrar">Jamaat-ul-Ahrar</a> (Aug 2014 – Mar 2015)</li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Islamic_State_flag.svg/20px-Islamic_State_flag.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Islamic_State_flag.svg/31px-Islamic_State_flag.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Islamic_State_flag.svg/40px-Islamic_State_flag.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="750" /> <a href="/wiki/National_Thowheeth_Jama%27ath" title="National Thowheeth Jama'ath">National Thowheeth Jama'ath</a> (2016 – May 2019)</li> <li>Gansu Hui Group (China)<a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a></li> <li>Haqqani network<a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a></li></ul> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Opponents</th><td class="infobox-data">Non-state opponents <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan"><img alt="Afghanistan" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_the_Taliban.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Taliban.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_the_Taliban.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Taliban.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_the_Taliban.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_Taliban.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="500" /></a> <a href="/wiki/Tehrik-i-Taliban_Pakistan" class="mw-redirect" title="Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan">Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan</a><a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Turkistan_Islamic_Party.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Flag_of_Turkistan_Islamic_Party.svg/25px-Flag_of_Turkistan_Islamic_Party.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Flag_of_Turkistan_Islamic_Party.svg/38px-Flag_of_Turkistan_Islamic_Party.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Flag_of_Turkistan_Islamic_Party.svg/50px-Flag_of_Turkistan_Islamic_Party.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="789" data-file-height="478" /></a> <a href="/wiki/Turkistan_Islamic_Party" title="Turkistan Islamic Party">Turkistan Islamic Party</a><a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Flag_of_Jihad.svg/23px-Flag_of_Jihad.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Flag_of_Jihad.svg/35px-Flag_of_Jihad.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Flag_of_Jihad.svg/46px-Flag_of_Jihad.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="500" /> <a href="/wiki/Al-Qaeda" title="Al-Qaeda">al-Qaeda</a></li></ul> State opponents <div class="collapsible-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="text-align: left;"> <div style="line-height: 1.6em; font-weight: bold; background:transparent;text-align:left;font-weight:normal;"><div>See list</div></div> <ul class="mw-collapsible-content" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin-left: 0;"><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_the_Taliban.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Taliban.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_the_Taliban.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Taliban.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_the_Taliban.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_Taliban.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="500" /> <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a> (<a href="/wiki/Taliban" title="Taliban">Taliban</a>)<a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> <img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="640" /> <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a><a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> <img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Flag_of_Bangladesh.svg/23px-Flag_of_Bangladesh.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Flag_of_Bangladesh.svg/35px-Flag_of_Bangladesh.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Flag_of_Bangladesh.svg/46px-Flag_of_Bangladesh.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Bangladesh" title="Bangladesh">Bangladesh</a> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a><a href="#cite_note-cpto-11">[11]</a> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> <img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> <img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/23px-Flag_of_France.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/35px-Flag_of_France.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/45px-Flag_of_France.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> <img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/23px-Flag_of_India.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/35px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/45px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a><a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> <img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Flag_of_Iran.svg/23px-Flag_of_Iran.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Flag_of_Iran.svg/35px-Flag_of_Iran.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Flag_of_Iran.svg/46px-Flag_of_Iran.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="630" data-file-height="360" /> <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a><a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> <img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Flag_of_Iraq.svg/23px-Flag_of_Iraq.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Flag_of_Iraq.svg/35px-Flag_of_Iraq.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Flag_of_Iraq.svg/45px-Flag_of_Iraq.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraq</a> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> <img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Flag_of_Jordan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Jordan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Flag_of_Jordan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Jordan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Flag_of_Jordan.svg/46px-Flag_of_Jordan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Jordan" title="Jordan">Jordan</a> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> <img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Flag_of_Kazakhstan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Kazakhstan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Flag_of_Kazakhstan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Kazakhstan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Flag_of_Kazakhstan.svg/46px-Flag_of_Kazakhstan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="500" /> <a href="/wiki/Kazakhstan" title="Kazakhstan">Kazakhstan</a> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> <img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Flag_of_Kyrgyzstan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Kyrgyzstan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Flag_of_Kyrgyzstan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Kyrgyzstan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Flag_of_Kyrgyzstan.svg/46px-Flag_of_Kyrgyzstan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Kyrgyzstan" title="Kyrgyzstan">Kyrgyzstan</a> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> <img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Flag_of_Pakistan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Flag_of_Pakistan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg.png 1.5x, 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Terror">War on Terror</a> <a href="/wiki/Operation_Khyber" title="Operation Khyber">Operation Khyber</a> <a href="/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%932021)" title="War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)">War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nangarhar_offensive_(2016)" title="Nangarhar offensive (2016)">Nangarhar offensive</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mohmand_Valley_raid" title="Mohmand Valley raid">Mohmand Valley raid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islamic_State%E2%80%93Taliban_conflict" title="Islamic State–Taliban conflict">Islamic State–Taliban conflict</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islamic_State_insurgency_in_the_North_Caucasus" title="Islamic State insurgency in the North Caucasus">Islamic State insurgency in the North Caucasus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crocus_City_Hall_attack" title="Crocus City Hall attack">Crocus City Hall attack</a></li></ul> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Flag</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/File:Islamic_State_flag.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Islamic_State_flag.svg/150px-Islamic_State_flag.svg.png" decoding="async" width="150" height="113" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Islamic_State_flag.svg/225px-Islamic_State_flag.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Islamic_State_flag.svg/300px-Islamic_State_flag.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="750" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table> The Islamic State – Khorasan Province<a href="#cite_note-17">[a]</a> (ISIS–K, IS–K, IS–KP) is a regional branch of the <a href="/wiki/Salafi_jihadism" title="Salafi jihadism">Salafi jihadist</a> group <a href="/wiki/Islamic_State" title="Islamic State">Islamic State</a> (IS) active in South-Central Asia, primarily <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a>. ISIS–K seeks to destabilize and replace current governments within the historic <a href="/wiki/Greater_Khorasan" title="Greater Khorasan">Khorasan region</a> with the goal of establishing a <a href="/wiki/Caliphate" title="Caliphate">caliphate</a> across <a href="/wiki/South_Asia" title="South Asia">South</a> and <a href="/wiki/Central_Asia" title="Central Asia">Central Asia</a>, governed under a strict interpretation of Islamic <a href="/wiki/Sharia" title="Sharia">sharia</a> law, which they plan to expand beyond the region.<a href="#cite_note-18">[17]</a> ISIS–K is responsible for numerous attacks of targeting civilians in Afghanistan and Pakistan, predominately against <a href="/wiki/Shia_Islam" title="Shia Islam">Shia Muslims</a>, politicians, and government employees. In August 2017, ISIS–K and the <a href="/wiki/Taliban" title="Taliban">Taliban</a> jointly attacked several villages inhabited by the Shia <a href="/wiki/Hazaras" title="Hazaras">Hazara</a> minority in northern Afghanistan, resulting in the <a href="/wiki/Persecution_of_Hazaras" title="Persecution of Hazaras">mass murder of Hazara</a> men, women, and children within <a href="/wiki/Sar-e_Pol_Province" title="Sar-e Pol Province">Sar-e Pol Province</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:4-19">[18]</a><a href="#cite_note-:5-20">[19]</a><a href="#cite_note-:6-21">[20]</a><a href="#cite_note-Gohel-22">[21]</a> Some of its most notable attacks include the <a href="/wiki/2021_Kabul_airport_attack" title="2021 Kabul airport attack">2021 Kabul airport attack</a> that killed 13 American military personnel and at least 169 Afghans in <a href="/wiki/Kabul" title="Kabul">Kabul</a> during the <a href="/wiki/2021_Kabul_airlift" title="2021 Kabul airlift">U.S. withdrawal</a> from the country, <a href="/wiki/2018_Mastung_and_Bannu_bombings" title="2018 Mastung and Bannu bombings">twin suicide bombings</a> in July 2018 that killed at least 131 at election rallies in Pakistan, <a href="/wiki/July_2016_Kabul_bombing" title="July 2016 Kabul bombing">twin bombings</a> in July 2016 that killed 97 Shia <a href="/wiki/Hazaras" title="Hazaras">Hazara</a> protestors in downtown Kabul, and a <a href="/wiki/2023_Khar_bombing" title="2023 Khar bombing">suicide bombing</a> in July 2023 that killed 63 in <a href="/wiki/Khar,_Bajaur" title="Khar, Bajaur">Khar, Pakistan</a> at a <a href="/wiki/Jamiat_Ulema-e-Islam_(F)" title="Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F)">JUI (F)</a> rally. While the majority of ISIS–K attacks occur in eastern Afghanistan and Pakistan's <a href="/wiki/Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa" title="Khyber Pakhtunkhwa">Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province</a>, since April 2022, ISIS–K has expanded to conduct external operations beyond its traditional area of operations. In April and May 2022, respectively, ISIS–K launched rockets from Afghan territory into the country's northern neighbors of <a href="/wiki/Uzbekistan" title="Uzbekistan">Uzbekistan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tajikistan" title="Tajikistan">Tajikistan</a>. In January 2024, two ISIS–K attackers carried out <a href="/wiki/Kerman_bombings" class="mw-redirect" title="Kerman bombings">twin suicide bombings</a> in <a href="/wiki/Kerman" title="Kerman">Kerman</a>, <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a>, during a procession mourning the <a href="/wiki/Assassination_of_Qasem_Soleimani" title="Assassination of Qasem Soleimani">US assassination</a> of <a href="/wiki/Quds_Force" title="Quds Force">Quds Force</a> leader <a href="/wiki/Qasem_Soleimani" title="Qasem Soleimani">Qasem Soleimani</a>, killing 94.<a href="#cite_note-23">[22]</a><a href="#cite_note-:8-24">[23]</a> In March 2024, four <a href="/wiki/Tajiks" title="Tajiks">Tajik</a> ISIS–K gunmen launched an <a href="/wiki/Crocus_City_Hall_attack" title="Crocus City Hall attack">attack on a concert hall</a> in <a href="/wiki/Krasnogorsk,_Moscow_Oblast" title="Krasnogorsk, Moscow Oblast">Krasnogorsk</a>, <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a>, with rifles and incendiaries, killing 145 and marking the group's first attack beyond Afghanistan's neighbors.<a href="#cite_note-25">[24]</a><a href="#cite_note-26">[25]</a> In June 2024, US officials arrested 8 Tajik men in <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia">Philadelphia</a>, who were reportedly involved in an ISIS–K plot within the United States, with connections to a larger ISIS–K cell being monitored in <a href="/wiki/Central_Europe" title="Central Europe">Central Europe</a>.<a href="#cite_note-27">[26]</a><a href="#cite_note-:9-28">[27]</a> All eight were said to have entered the United States illegally across the <a href="/wiki/Mexico%E2%80%93United_States_border" title="Mexico–United States border">U.S. border</a> with <a href="/wiki/Mexico" title="Mexico">Mexico</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:9-28">[27]</a> ISIS–K began with the dispatch of Afghan and Pakistani militants from <a href="/wiki/Al-Qaeda" title="Al-Qaeda">al-Qaeda</a>-aligned groups to the <a href="/wiki/Syrian_Civil_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Syrian Civil War">Syrian civil war</a>, who returned to the region with instructions and funding to recruit fighters for a branch of the Islamic State in the Khorasan region. The group's traditional base of power began and remains in eastern Afghanistan along <a href="/wiki/Durand_Line" title="Durand Line">the border with Pakistan</a>, recruiting from former dissatisfied fighters and dissenters of the Taliban<a href="#cite_note-:42-29">[28]</a> as well as individuals from South and South East Asia.<a href="#cite_note-:7-30">[29]</a><a href="#cite_note-hopeto-31">[30]</a> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Name">Name</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Islamic_State_%E2%80%93_Khorasan_Province&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Name">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Names_of_the_Islamic_State" title="Names of the Islamic State">Names of the Islamic State</a></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Greater_Khurasan.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Greater_Khurasan.png/272px-Greater_Khurasan.png" decoding="async" width="272" height="192" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Greater_Khurasan.png/408px-Greater_Khurasan.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Greater_Khurasan.png/544px-Greater_Khurasan.png 2x" data-file-width="3507" data-file-height="2480" /></a><figcaption>Approximate region of Greater Khorasan</figcaption></figure> Due in part to the contentious and fluid naming pattern of the larger Islamic State organization, ISIS–K is referred to by a number of name variants.<a href="#cite_note-BBC2Dec2015-32">[31]</a><a href="#cite_note-Inquisitr18Jun2014-33">[32]</a><a href="#cite_note-WashingtonPost18June2014-34">[33]</a> The larger organization has shifted between names such as the Islamic State of <a href="/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraq</a> and <a href="/wiki/Syria" title="Syria">Syria</a> (ISIS), Islamic State of Iraq and the <a href="/wiki/Levant" title="Levant">Levant</a> (ISIL), Islamic State of Iraq and <a href="/wiki/Syria_(region)" title="Syria (region)">as-Sham</a> (ISIS), and later simply the Islamic State (IS).<a href="#cite_note-Inquisitr18Jun2014-33">[32]</a> Added to the larger organization's name, 'Khorasan Province' varies in abbreviation between 'K' and 'KP'. Thus, commonly used English abbreviations for the group include ISIS–K, ISIL–K, IS–K, ISIS–KP, ISIL–KP, IS–KP, ISISK, ISK, and ISKP. Colloquially, especially in southwest and <a href="/wiki/South_Asia" title="South Asia">south-central Asia</a>, the group referred to by the abbreviation of the larger Islamic State: Daesh, which is an acronym of the Islamic State's name in <a href="/wiki/Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a> (ad-Dawlah al-Islamīyah fī l-ʻIrāq wa ash-Shām) as Dāʿish (داعش), or Daesh.<a href="#cite_note-:3-35">[34]</a> This name is considered derogatory, as it resembles the Arabic words Daes (دَعَسَ, <a href="/wiki/Literal_translation" title="Literal translation">lit.</a> 'to trample', 'to run over') and Dāhis (دَاحِس, <a href="/wiki/Literal_translation" title="Literal translation">lit.</a> 'one who causes discord').<a href="#cite_note-36">[35]</a><a href="#cite_note-:3-35">[34]</a> The name 'Daesh' is also used in the area of ISIS–K's operations, including among <a href="/wiki/Persian_language" title="Persian language">Farsi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dari" title="Dari">Dari</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pashto" title="Pashto">Pashto</a>, <a href="/wiki/Balochi_language" title="Balochi language">Balochi</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Urdu" title="Urdu">Urdu</a> speakers.<a href="#cite_note-37">[36]</a><a href="#cite_note-38">[37]</a><a href="#cite_note-39">[38]</a> In interviews with western researchers and journalists, ISIS–K members and heads alike use the term 'Daesh' to describe the movement, despite the derogatory connotations the term carries in Arabic-speaking Iraq and Syria.<a href="#cite_note-:42-29">[28]</a><a href="#cite_note-40">[39]</a> The term '<a href="/wiki/Wilayah" title="Wilayah">Wilayah</a>', translated as 'Province' comes from the Arabic term for an <a href="/wiki/Administrative_division" title="Administrative division">administrative subdivision</a>, led by a <a href="/wiki/Wali" title="Wali">wali</a> (governor). The Islamic State likely favors the term for its significance as the primary subdivision of historic <a href="/wiki/Caliphate" title="Caliphate">Islamic caliphates</a>.<a href="#cite_note-41">[40]</a> The Islamic State uses the term Wilayat in each of its province's formal names, <a href="/wiki/Islamic_State_%E2%80%93_West_Africa_Province" title="Islamic State – West Africa Province">Islamic State – West Africa Province</a> (ISWAP), for example.<a href="#cite_note-42">[41]</a><a href="#cite_note-43">[42]</a> The term '<a href="/wiki/Khorasan_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Khorasan (disambiguation)">Khorasan</a>' refers to the concept of <a href="/wiki/Greater_Khorasan" title="Greater Khorasan">Greater Khorasan</a>, a historical eastern region of the <a href="/wiki/Iranian_Plateau" class="mw-redirect" title="Iranian Plateau">Iranian Plateau</a> between Western and Central Asia. Khorasan was first established as a region under the <a href="/wiki/Persian_language" title="Persian language">Persian</a> <a href="/wiki/Sasanian_Empire" title="Sasanian Empire">Sasanian Empire</a> and expanded under the <a href="/wiki/Umayyad_Caliphate" title="Umayyad Caliphate">Umayyad Caliphate</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Minorsky-44">[43]</a><a href="#cite_note-45">[44]</a> Today, the lands of the Khorasan region include northeastern <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a>, most of Afghanistan, and the southern areas of <a href="/wiki/Central_Asia" title="Central Asia">Central Asia</a>. The Greater Khorasan region is not to be confused with similarly named <a href="/wiki/North_Khorasan_province" title="North Khorasan province">North</a>, <a href="/wiki/South_Khorasan_province" title="South Khorasan province">South</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Razavi_Khorasan_province" title="Razavi Khorasan province">Razavi (Central) Khorasan</a> Provinces of modern Iran. ISIS–K's first <a href="/wiki/Wali" title="Wali">wali</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hafiz_Saeed_Khan" title="Hafiz Saeed Khan">Hafiz Saeed Khan</a>, in a 2016 interview featured in the Islamic State's 13th issue of the magazine <a href="/wiki/Dabiq_(magazine)" title="Dabiq (magazine)">Dabiq</a>, described the region of Khorasan and its significance: <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote">Wilāyat Khurāsān has great importance to Islam and the Muslims. It had once been under the authority of the Muslims, along with the regions surrounding it. Afterwards, the secularist and Rāfidī [rejectionists, Shia] murtaddīn [apostates] conquered some of these regions, and the cow-worshipping Hindus and atheist Chinese conquered other nearby regions, as is the case in parts of Kashmir and Turkistan. So the Wilāyah, by Allah’s permission, is a gate to re-conquering all these regions until they are ruled once more by Allah’s law, and so the territory of the blessed Khilāfah [caliphate] is expanded.<div class="templatequotecite">— <cite><a href="/wiki/Hafiz_Saeed_Khan" title="Hafiz Saeed Khan">Hafiz Saeed Khan</a></cite></div></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Islamic_State_%E2%80%93_Khorasan_Province&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: History">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Islamic_State_%E2%80%93_Khorasan_Province" title="History of the Islamic State – Khorasan Province">History of the Islamic State – Khorasan Province</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Background">Background</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Islamic_State_%E2%80%93_Khorasan_Province&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Background">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Islamic_State_%E2%80%93_Khorasan_Province#Background" title="History of the Islamic State – Khorasan Province">History of the Islamic State – Khorasan Province § Background</a></div> Prior to the official establishment of ISIS–K in 2015, a number of Islamic militant jihadist groups operated in South and Central Asia, seeking to supplant existing governments with a more <a href="/wiki/Islamic_fundamentalism" title="Islamic fundamentalism">fundamentalist</a>, <a href="/wiki/Islamism" title="Islamism">Islamist</a> government. These groups fought against the governments of <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a>, <a href="/wiki/Turkmenistan" title="Turkmenistan">Turkmenistan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Uzbekistan" title="Uzbekistan">Uzbekistan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tajikistan" title="Tajikistan">Tajikistan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a>, and <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a>, most with support from al-Qaeda which had operated with a base of operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan since 1988. In response to failed negotiations with the Taliban following the <a href="/wiki/September_11_attacks" title="September 11 attacks">September 11th 2001 attacks</a> by al-Qaeda against the United States, the U.S. overthrew the <a href="/wiki/Islamic_Emirate_of_Afghanistan_(1996%E2%80%932001)" title="Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (1996–2001)">Taliban regime</a> in Afghanistan and launched <a href="/wiki/Operation_Anaconda" title="Operation Anaconda">a military campaign</a> against al-Qaeda and Taliban militants who fought to reclaim the country. The insurgent conflict became a focal point for <a href="/wiki/Jihadism" title="Jihadism">jihadism</a> in the Khorasan region with nearly every jihadist group in the region taking part to varying degrees.<a href="#cite_note-:42-29">[28]</a> Later in 2003, the United States overthrew the <a href="/wiki/Ba%27athist_Iraq" title="Ba'athist Iraq">Ba’athist government of Iraq</a> and its leader, <a href="/wiki/Saddam_Hussein" title="Saddam Hussein">Saddam Hussein</a>. <a href="/wiki/Jama%27at_al-Tawhid_wal-Jihad" title="Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad">Jamat al-Tawhid wa al-Jihad</a> ('Organization of Monotheism and Jihad'), led by Jordanian <a href="/wiki/Salafi_jihadism" title="Salafi jihadism">Salafist jihadist</a> <a href="/wiki/Abu_Musab_al-Zarqawi" title="Abu Musab al-Zarqawi">Abu Musab al-Zarqawi</a>, quickly gained notoriety for bloody attacks on <a href="/wiki/Shia_Islam" title="Shia Islam">Shia</a> mosques, civilians, Iraqi government, American, and foreign troops. In 2004, Zarqawi swore allegiance to <a href="/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden" title="Osama bin Laden">Osama bin Laden</a> and the group became part of <a href="/wiki/Ayman_al-Zawahiri" title="Ayman al-Zawahiri">Ayman al-Zawahiri</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Iraqi_insurgency_(2003%E2%80%932011)" title="Iraqi insurgency (2003–2011)">campaign</a> against the United States, becoming known as <a href="/wiki/Al-Qaeda_in_Iraq" title="Al-Qaeda in Iraq">al-Qaeda in Iraq</a> or AQI. Under the 2007 surge of American troops in Iraq, AQI was diminished until 2011 when the group newly under the leadership of <a href="/wiki/Abu_Bakr_al-Baghdadi" title="Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi">Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi</a>, began to reemerge and spread into the nascent <a href="/wiki/Syrian_civil_war" title="Syrian civil war">Syrian civil war</a>. Capturing a number of cities in Iraq and Syria, notably Raqqa, Fallujah, Mosul, Tikrit, Ramadi, Aleppo, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (<a href="/wiki/Names_of_the_Islamic_State" title="Names of the Islamic State">rebranded</a> later to 'Islamic State') declared an Islamic caliphate in 2014 with al-Baghdadi as caliph. By 2010, the Taliban resistance had become weakened under the stresses of factionalism, and the Taliban had lost credibility with many of the jihadist groups for its attempts to negotiate with <a href="/wiki/International_Security_Assistance_Force" title="International Security Assistance Force">NATO forces</a>. In contrast, the outbreak of the <a href="/wiki/Syrian_civil_war" title="Syrian civil war">Syrian civil war</a> in March 2011 shifted the attention of jihadists from the Afghan jihad to the <a href="/wiki/Levant" title="Levant">Levant</a>. With jihadist groups flocking to take part in the conflict, al-Qaeda's branches in Afghanistan and Pakistan began lobbying to send groups of fighters to join the Syrian jihad, a measure to demonstrate to the world that al-Qaeda was still actively involved in a global jihad, especially as donor states' interest in the Afghan jihad faded in favor of the surging ISIS campaign in Syria. Although <a href="/wiki/Al-Qaeda" title="Al-Qaeda">al-Qaeda</a>-linked Afghan and Pakistani jihadists had traveled to fight in the Levant as early as 2003, most groups had been small in number and quickly integrated into assorted ISIS units.<a href="#cite_note-:42-29">[28]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Formation">Formation</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Islamic_State_%E2%80%93_Khorasan_Province&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Formation">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Islamic_State_%E2%80%93_Khorasan_Province#Disparate_groups" title="History of the Islamic State – Khorasan Province">History of the Islamic State – Khorasan Province § Disparate groups</a></div> On 14 July 2012, <a href="/wiki/Hafiz_Saeed_Khan" title="Hafiz Saeed Khan">Hafiz Saeed Khan</a>, a prominent <a href="/wiki/Pakistani_Taliban" title="Pakistani Taliban">Pakistani Taliban</a> (TTP) leader, agreed to rapidly assemble a group of 143 Afghan and Pakistani volunteer fighters for al-Qaeda to dispatch to join the <a href="/wiki/Al-Nusra_Front" title="Al-Nusra Front">al-Nusra Front</a> in Syria. Similarly, as the Taliban's <a href="/wiki/Leadership_Council_of_Afghanistan" title="Leadership Council of Afghanistan">Quetta Shura</a> and leadership council (<a href="/wiki/Leadership_Council_of_Afghanistan" title="Leadership Council of Afghanistan">Rahbari Shura</a>) refused to send fighters to Syria, the Taliban's <a href="/wiki/Leadership_Council_of_Afghanistan" title="Leadership Council of Afghanistan">Peshawar Shura</a> and semi-autonomous <a href="/wiki/Haqqani_network" title="Haqqani network">Miran Shah Shura</a> (better known as the <a href="/wiki/Haqqani_network" title="Haqqani network">Haqqani network</a>) arranged a deal between <a href="/wiki/Sirajuddin_Haqqani" title="Sirajuddin Haqqani">Sirajuddin Haqqani</a> and ISIS-leader <a href="/wiki/Abu_Bakr_al-Baghdadi" title="Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi">Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi</a> to deploy Afghan and Pakistani jihadists to the Syrian conflict on salaries of $800 a month, four times that of Taliban fighters. Most importantly, these jihadist units fought as organized groups and would eventually be brought back to Afghanistan and Pakistan, unlike previous groups which were assimilated into local jihadist groups fighting in Syria. Deployments of groups by al-Qaeda in South Asia and by parts of the Taliban quickly made a remarkable impact on the Syrian conflict. From 2012 through 2014, the ranks of Afghans and Pakistanis in ISIS grew massively with at least 1,000 volunteers deployed by TTP alone.<a href="#cite_note-:42-29">[28]</a> Likely appreciative of the volunteer fighters supplied by groups in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the ISIS Military Commission in Syria offered ten TTP and Taliban volunteer group leaders, from Saeed Khan's first dispatch, $1 million to proselytize for the movement when they returned to Afghanistan and Pakistan. Beginning in November 2013, these group leaders began approaching members of each militant group including the Afghan Taliban, TTP, <a href="/wiki/Islamic_Movement_of_Uzbekistan" title="Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan">IMU</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lashkar-e-Taiba" title="Lashkar-e-Taiba">LeT</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lashkar-e-Jhangvi" title="Lashkar-e-Jhangvi">LeJ</a>, and others to join the effort. These ten commanders would become ISIS–K's early senior figures, including Sheikh Mohsin and Sa'ad Emarati who would become ISIS–K's first emirs of <a href="/wiki/Islamic_Emirate_of_Kunar" title="Islamic Emirate of Kunar">Kunar</a> and <a href="/wiki/Logar_Province" title="Logar Province">Logar Province</a>, respectively. In support of the growing movement, the Haqqani Network and Peshawar Shura, established two training camps in <a href="/wiki/Waziristan" title="Waziristan">Waziristan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kunar_Province" title="Kunar Province">Kunar</a> to teach militants combat skills, vet militants, and provide elementary <a href="/wiki/Arabic" title="Arabic">Arabic language</a> lessons. Once complete, these fighters would transit across Iran and <a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a> to reach Syria, mostly posing as <a href="/wiki/Economic_migrant" title="Economic migrant">economic migrants</a>, or on commercial flights for more senior leaders. At the time, commanders found it fairly easy to motivate fighters to join the fight in Syria, as most assumed their former organization would eventually sign a peace deal with the Afghan or Pakistani government, and because the money was more attractive than the region's faltering Taliban donors. One senior ISIS–K member noted in June 2015 "many <a href="/wiki/Arabs" title="Arabs">Arab</a> countries support Daesh: <a href="/wiki/Saudi_Arabia" title="Saudi Arabia">Saudi Arabia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Qatar" title="Qatar">Qatar</a>, <a href="/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates" title="United Arab Emirates">UAE</a>, and others. They also have a lot of natural resources under their control, like oil wells." Beginning in mid-2013, the groups' leaders began to swear allegiance to <a href="/wiki/Abu_Bakr_al-Baghdadi" title="Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi">Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi</a>, the caliph of the Islamic State, though it remains unclear how the militant's original organizations viewed these newly sworn allegiances or if others opted to remain loyal to al-Qaida's al-Nusra Front.<a href="#cite_note-:42-29">[28]</a> Through early 2014, even before the Islamic State would officially separate from al-Qaeda and declare a caliphate in Iraq and Syria, al-Baghdadi (caliph of ISIS), <a href="/wiki/Abu_Muslim_al-Turkmani" title="Abu Muslim al-Turkmani">Muslim Turkmani</a> (deputy emir), and <a href="/wiki/Abu_Omar_al-Shishani" title="Abu Omar al-Shishani">Abu Omar al-Shishani</a> (senior commander in <a href="/wiki/Raqqa" title="Raqqa">Raqqa</a>) had been strongly advocating that the volunteers set up a new branch (wilayah) in Afghanistan and Pakistan with the territories of Iran and Central Asia as later goals. On 3 April 2014, al-Shishani appointed Qari Wali Rahman, an Afghan from <a href="/wiki/Baghlan" title="Baghlan">Baghlan</a>, who had been fighting in Syria since 2013, to be the Islamic State's special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan.<a href="#cite_note-:42-29">[28]</a> Even though the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria had agreed to the establishment of a branch in Khorasan, and though a single, special representative to the new branch had been named, the groups of volunteers from the Khorasan region (primarily Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Uzbekistan) were still disunited and dispersed. Only in 2014, had the groups began to form larger organizations and coalesce around a few key commanders. These groups were Tehrik-e Khilafat Khorasan (TKK), Khilafat Afghan and Muslim Dost's group, Azizullah Haqqani's group, and Tehrik-e Khilafat Pakistan (TKP), the first three of which existed in Afghanistan and TKP in Pakistan.<a href="#cite_note-:42-29">[28]</a> In January 2015, the three groups, varyingly recruiting from the <a href="/wiki/Taliban" title="Taliban">Afghan Taliban</a>, <a href="/wiki/Haqqani_network" title="Haqqani network">Haqqani network</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Pakistani_Taliban" title="Pakistani Taliban">Pakistani Taliban</a>, merged into the larger Islamic State – Khorasan Province with Hafiz Saeed Khan as its <a href="/wiki/Wali" title="Wali">wali</a>, and was formally announced by ISIS-Central's chief spokesperson, Abu Muhammad al-Adnan on 26 January 2015. Interviews with ISIS–K leaders suggest that it was from that day forward that members of these formerly separate groups all began to refer to themselves as Daesh, Daesh Khorasan, or Khilafat Islami with a strong discouragement for any continued insinuation of separate groups. One ISIS–K member, formerly of Khilafat Afghan remarked "My boss is Mullah Abdul Khadim, from the <a href="/wiki/Orakzai" title="Orakzai">Orakzai</a> tribe of Pakistan. I don't know who is my boss and we don't need to know that. I only know who my boss is and who the leader of Khilafat-i-Islami is, Amir-ul-Muminin Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Daesh is not like the Taliban where everyone knows about their system."<a href="#cite_note-:42-29">[28]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Expansion">Expansion</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Islamic_State_%E2%80%93_Khorasan_Province&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Expansion">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Islamic_State_%E2%80%93_Khorasan_Province#Organizational_expansion" title="History of the Islamic State – Khorasan Province">History of the Islamic State – Khorasan Province § Organizational expansion</a></div> Though ISIS–K, when it was officially declared in January 2015, was the product of the merger of Tehrik-e Khilafat Khorasan (TKK), Khilafat Afghan, Muslim Dost's group, Azizullah Haqqani's group, and Tehrik-e Khilafat Pakistan (TKP), the organization's expansion attracted various other militant groups, including many from Afghanistan's geographic periphery. Notable among these are the Omar Ghazi Group, Shamali Khilafat, Gansu Hui Group,<a href="#cite_note-46">[45]</a> Harakat Khilafat Baluch, Jaysh ul Islam, Mullah Bakhtwar's group, the Shamsatoo group, and radical student groups in Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan.<a href="#cite_note-:42-29">[28]</a> Beyond the incorporation of smaller militant groups, the newly ordained ISIS–K forged significant alliances with other Sunni jihadist movements in the region to include the <a href="/wiki/Islamic_Movement_of_Uzbekistan" title="Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan">Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan</a> (IMU), Islamic Movement of Turkmenistan (IMT), <a href="/wiki/Turkistan_Islamic_Party" title="Turkistan Islamic Party">Uyghur East Turkestan Islamic Party</a> (ETIP), <a href="/wiki/Jamaat_Ansarullah" title="Jamaat Ansarullah">Jamaat Ansarullah</a>, <a href="/wiki/Islamic_Movement_of_Tajikistan" title="Islamic Movement of Tajikistan">Harakat Islami Tajikistan</a>, and the Islamic Jihad Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IJRPT), <a href="/wiki/Hezb-e_Islami_Gulbuddin" title="Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin">Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin</a>, and Baluchi militant groups including the Pakistani and Iranian Jundullah movements, which ISIS–K united. These groups shared with ISIS–K a violent opposition to Shia Muslims and the desire to replace existing secular and democratic institutions in the region with a powerful Islamic state. Many of these groups, prior to the establishment of ISIS–K, relied on limited support from al-Qaeda, which by the time of ISIS–K's founding had been dismissed as too focused and engaged in the struggle against <a href="/wiki/NATO" title="NATO">NATO</a> forces in Afghanistan and not on other Central Asian <a href="/wiki/Jihadism" title="Jihadism">jihadist movements</a>. ISIS–K's perceived influence in Central Asian nations was an important driver for many Sunni Muslim donors in the Arabian Gulf who financially supported ISIS–K as a counterbalance to the threat of Russian anti-Islamic influence in the former Soviet Central Asian states.<a href="#cite_note-:42-29">[28]</a> On 15 May 2019, ISIS declared new 'Pakistan Province' and 'India Province' branches after claiming attacks in <a href="/wiki/Balochistan" title="Balochistan">Balochistan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kashmir" title="Kashmir">Kashmir</a>, respectively. This suggests that while the Khorasan Province still exists, its self-proclaimed geographical area may be reduced.<a href="#cite_note-47">[46]</a> By May 2020 ISIS–K territorial control in Afghanistan was reportedly limited to parts of <a href="/wiki/Chawkay_District" title="Chawkay District">Chawkay District</a> in Kunar province, specifically <a href="/wiki/Chalas" title="Chalas">Chalas</a> village, Dewaygal Valley and Shuraz Valley.<a href="#cite_note-48">[47]</a> On 26 July 2020, a <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a> report stated that even though the IS branch in Afghanistan had undergone further severe reverses in its former Afghan strongholds of Nangarhar and Kunar provinces, it was too soon to discount it as a threat. Although in territorial retreat, IS in Afghanistan could carry out high-profile attacks in various parts of the country, including <a href="/wiki/Kabul" title="Kabul">Kabul</a>.<a href="#cite_note-49">[48]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Operations">Operations</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Islamic_State_%E2%80%93_Khorasan_Province&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Operations">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents_linked_to_Islamic_State_%E2%80%93_Khorasan_Province" title="List of terrorist incidents linked to Islamic State – Khorasan Province">List of terrorist incidents linked to Islamic State – Khorasan Province</a></div> On 24 January 2018, militants launched a bomb and gun <a href="/wiki/Save_the_Children_Jalalabad_attack" title="Save the Children Jalalabad attack">attack on a Save the Children</a> office in <a href="/wiki/Jalalabad" title="Jalalabad">Jalalabad</a>, killing six people and injuring 27. ISIS–K claimed responsibility, saying it was targeting Western institutions. In the aftermath of the attack, <a href="/wiki/Save_the_Children" title="Save the Children">Save the Children</a> suspended its operations in Afghanistan.<a href="#cite_note-Al_Jazeera_20182-50">[49]</a> On 17 August 2019, a <a href="/wiki/17_August_2019_Kabul_bombing" title="17 August 2019 Kabul bombing">suicide bombing</a> took place during a wedding in a wedding hall in Kabul. At least 92 people were killed in the attack and over 140 injured.<a href="#cite_note-51">[50]</a> ISIS–K claimed responsibility for the bombing, stating that the attack targeted the <a href="/wiki/Shia_Islam_in_Afghanistan" title="Shia Islam in Afghanistan">Shi'ites</a>.<a href="#cite_note-52">[51]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:3595184_%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%AF_%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%86_%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B2_%D8%B4%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%AA_%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B4%D8%AC%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B4%DA%AF%D8%A7%D9%87_%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%84.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img 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and injuries of 148 others, including newborn babies, mothers, nurses, and mourners.<a href="#cite_note-53">[52]</a><a href="#cite_note-54">[53]</a> The U.S. government said that ISIS–K conducted the <a href="/wiki/May_2020_Afghanistan_attacks" title="May 2020 Afghanistan attacks">May 2020 Afghanistan attacks</a>, not the Taliban, but this assertion was rejected by the <a href="/wiki/Islamic_Republic_of_Afghanistan" title="Islamic Republic of Afghanistan">republican Afghan government</a>.<a href="#cite_note-55">[54]</a> On 2 November 2020, more than 32 people were killed and 50 others injured in an <a href="/wiki/2020_Kabul_University_attack" title="2020 Kabul University attack">attack on Kabul University</a>.<a href="#cite_note-56">[55]</a> The ISIS–K claimed responsibility for the attack.<a href="#cite_note-57">[56]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a 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International Airport in Kabul</a>, killing over 170 people, including 28 Taliban members and 13 U.S. military personnel.<a href="#cite_note-58">[57]</a> Amidst the Taliban <a href="/wiki/Fall_of_Kabul_(2021)" title="Fall of Kabul (2021)">advance on Kabul</a> in preceding weeks, hundreds to thousands of ISIS–K prisoners had been released or otherwise escaped from detention, leading to U.S. fears of attacks on the airport and future targets.<a href="#cite_note-59">[58]</a><a href="#cite_note-60">[59]</a><a href="#cite_note-61">[60]</a> After the attack, the Taliban announced that they would curtail the operations of ISIS–K and capture its leader <a href="/wiki/Shahab_al-Muhajir" title="Shahab al-Muhajir">Shahab al-Muhajir</a>.<a href="#cite_note-62">[61]</a> On 6 September 2022, the <a href="/wiki/Human_Rights_Watch" title="Human Rights Watch">Human Rights Watch</a> reported that since the <a href="/wiki/Taliban" title="Taliban">Taliban</a> took over Afghanistan in August 2021, the ISIS–K has claimed responsibility for 13 attacks against <a href="/wiki/Hazaras" title="Hazaras">Hazaras</a> and has been linked to at least 3 more, killing and injuring at least 700 people. The Islamic State affiliate has repeatedly attacked Hazaras and other religious minorities at mosques, schools, and workplaces.<a href="#cite_note-63">[62]</a> ISIS–K claimed responsibility for the <a href="/wiki/Bombing_of_the_Russian_embassy_in_Kabul" title="Bombing of the Russian embassy in Kabul">bombing of the Russian embassy in Kabul</a> in September 2022.<a href="#cite_note-64">[63]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="External_operations">External operations</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Islamic_State_%E2%80%93_Khorasan_Province&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: External operations">edit</a>]</div> The majority of ISIS–K attacks have been based in Afghanistan, traditionally the group's primary base of operations. Since the close of the NATO presence in Afghanistan and the subsequent military takeover by the Taliban, the group has increased its presence across the border in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province (KPK), where it has launched an increasing share of its attacks. ISIS–K's first external operation (operations beyond its conventional area of operations) came on 18 April 2022, during the Islamic holy month of <a href="/wiki/Ramadan" title="Ramadan">Ramadan</a>, when the group launched ten rockets out of a <a href="/wiki/Katyusha_rocket_launcher" title="Katyusha rocket launcher">Katyusha launcher</a> from northern Afghanistan, over the <a href="/wiki/Amu_Darya" title="Amu Darya">Amu Darya</a> (Oxus) river into the Uzbek border city of <a href="/wiki/Termez" title="Termez">Termez</a>. ISIS-Central published the account in its an-Naba Newsletter, Issue #335, and released video of the launch via the organization's <a href="/wiki/Amaq_News_Agency" title="Amaq News Agency">Amaq News Agency</a>.<a href="#cite_note-65">[64]</a> In an-Naba, ISIS claimed the attack was conducted as part of the larger organization's 'Raid of Revenge for the Two Sheikhs', in which a number of its subordinate provinces conducted a cumulative 245 attacks between 17 April and 1 May in stated revenge for the 3 February 2022 U.S. counterterrorism operation killing ISIS's <a href="/wiki/Caliphate" title="Caliphate">caliph</a> (and successor to the recently killed <a href="/wiki/Abu_Bakr_al-Baghdadi" title="Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi">Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi</a>) <a href="/wiki/Abu_Ibrahim_al-Hashimi_al-Qurashi" title="Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi">Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi</a> and the November 2021 U.S. airstrike killing ISIS chief spokesman, <a href="/wiki/Abu_Hamza_Al-Qurashi" title="Abu Hamza Al-Qurashi">Abu Hamza al-Qurashi</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Defense_(Uzbekistan)" title="Ministry of Defense (Uzbekistan)">Uzbek Ministry of Defense</a> and Afghan Taliban both denied reports of the attack.<a href="#cite_note-66">[65]</a> Shortly after the attack against Uzbekistan, on 7 May, ISIS–K conducted its second external operation against Tajikistan. According to ISIS-Central's an-Naba newsletter's 338th issue, the group launched seven rockets from a Katyusha launcher from the Afghan-Tajik border in Takhar Province targeting the "headquarters of the apostate Tajik army." Similar to its rocket attack against Uzbekistan, ISIS-Central published an account of the attack in an-Naba and a video of the operation through Amaq News Agency.<a href="#cite_note-67">[66]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Terrorist_attack_at_the_Crocus_City_Hall_in_Moscow_aftermath.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Terrorist_attack_at_the_Crocus_City_Hall_in_Moscow_aftermath.jpg/220px-Terrorist_attack_at_the_Crocus_City_Hall_in_Moscow_aftermath.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Terrorist_attack_at_the_Crocus_City_Hall_in_Moscow_aftermath.jpg/330px-Terrorist_attack_at_the_Crocus_City_Hall_in_Moscow_aftermath.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Terrorist_attack_at_the_Crocus_City_Hall_in_Moscow_aftermath.jpg/440px-Terrorist_attack_at_the_Crocus_City_Hall_in_Moscow_aftermath.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="720" /></a><figcaption>Emergency services responding to the <a href="/wiki/Crocus_City_Hall_attack" title="Crocus City Hall attack">Crocus City Hall attack</a> in Russia on 22 March 2024</figcaption></figure> ISIS–K's third external operation, the first of which to gain high-profile international attention and produce obvious casualties, was <a href="/wiki/2024_Kerman_bombings" title="2024 Kerman bombings">a twin bombing</a> on 3 January 2024<a href="#cite_note-68">[b]</a> against a gathering of Iranians mourning the death of former <a href="/wiki/Islamic_Revolutionary_Guard_Corps" title="Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps">Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps</a> (IRGC) <a href="/wiki/Quds_Force" title="Quds Force">Quds Force</a> (QF) commander, <a href="/wiki/Qasem_Soleimani" title="Qasem Soleimani">Qasem Soleimani</a>, at his grave in <a href="/wiki/Kerman" title="Kerman">Kerman</a>, Iran.<a href="#cite_note-iskp-69">[67]</a><a href="#cite_note-NYT2-70">[68]</a><a href="#cite_note-isis-71">[69]</a> The bloody attack killed 96, and injured 284.<a href="#cite_note-iskp-69">[67]</a> ISIS-K's fourth and most high-profile external operation was a 22 March 2024 attack by four Tajik gunmen against Russian civilians in the <a href="/wiki/Crocus_City_Hall_attack" title="Crocus City Hall attack">Crocus City Hall attack</a>.<a href="#cite_note-ABC_News-20242-72">[70]</a> The attack, claimed by ISIS–K, killed 145 and injured 551 and marked the deadliest attack on Russian soil since the <a href="/wiki/Beslan_school_siege" title="Beslan school siege">Beslan school siege</a> in 2004, and it is also the deadliest ever Islamic State attack on European soil to this day, closely followed by the 2015 Paris attacks.<a href="#cite_note-Belam-2024-73">[71]</a><a href="#cite_note-Singh-2024-74">[72]</a><a href="#cite_note-ABC_News-20242-72">[70]</a> Putin and the Russian security service, the <a href="/wiki/Federal_Security_Service" title="Federal Security Service">FSB</a>, blamed <a href="/wiki/Ukraine" title="Ukraine">Ukraine</a> for the attack, but did not provide evidence for the attribution.<a href="#cite_note-ajradical2-75">[73]</a><a href="#cite_note-76">[74]</a> IS-affiliated Amaq News Agency published a video filmed by one of the attackers.<a href="#cite_note-77">[75]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Operations_by_opponents">Operations by opponents</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Islamic_State_%E2%80%93_Khorasan_Province&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Operations by opponents">edit</a>]</div> On 4 April 2020, the <a href="/wiki/National_Directorate_of_Security" title="National Directorate of Security">National Directorate of Security</a> announced the arrest of the head of <a href="/wiki/ISIL" class="mw-redirect" title="ISIL">IS</a> Aslam Farooqi by the <a href="/wiki/Afghan_Armed_Forces" title="Afghan Armed Forces">Afghan military forces</a> who took him into custody along with 20 other commanders.<a href="#cite_note-78">[76]</a> <dl><dt>2017 Nangarhar airstrike</dt></dl> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/2017_Nangarhar_airstrike" title="2017 Nangarhar airstrike">2017 Nangarhar airstrike</a></div> On 13 April 2017, a <a href="/wiki/GBU-43/B_MOAB" title="GBU-43/B MOAB">GBU-43/B MOAB</a> was dropped in an <a href="/wiki/April_2017_Nangarhar_airstrike" class="mw-redirect" title="April 2017 Nangarhar airstrike">airstrike</a> on a cave complex in <a href="/wiki/Achin_District" title="Achin District">Achin District</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nangarhar_Province" title="Nangarhar Province">Nangarhar Province</a>, <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a>. It was the first use of the bomb on the battlefield.<a href="#cite_note-CooperMashal-79">[77]</a><a href="#cite_note-CBS-170413-80">[78]</a><a href="#cite_note-81">[79]</a> The Afghan defense ministry reported it to have killed over 36 militants and destroyed the tunnel complex including a cache of weapons. No civilian casualties were reported.<a href="#cite_note-82">[80]</a> On 14 April 2017, Pakistan's security agencies along with the local <a href="/wiki/Punjab_Police_(Pakistan)" title="Punjab Police (Pakistan)">police</a> raided a house in <a href="/wiki/Lahore" title="Lahore">Lahore</a>'s Factory Area as part of their combing operation which was approved by Pakistan's Chief of Army Staff <a href="/wiki/Qamar_Javed_Bajwa" title="Qamar Javed Bajwa">Qamar Javed Bajwa</a> in the aftermath of <a href="/wiki/February_2017_Lahore_suicide_bombing" title="February 2017 Lahore suicide bombing">Mall Road bombing</a>.<a href="#cite_note-83">[81]</a> After an exchange of fire which killed one "terrorist", three other suspects were arrested, one of them being Noreen Leghari, a student from <a href="/wiki/Hyderabad,_Sindh" class="mw-redirect" title="Hyderabad, Sindh">Hyderabad, Pakistan</a> who was claimed to be missing by her family 4 days prior to the raid.<a href="#cite_note-84">[82]</a> On a confessional statement released by <a href="/wiki/Inter-Services_Public_Relations" title="Inter-Services Public Relations">ISPR</a>, Noreen confessed to joining <a href="/wiki/Islamic_State" title="Islamic State">IS</a> through a terrorist she met on <a href="/wiki/Social_media" title="Social media">social media</a>, She also told authorities that she was recruited by IS to attack a <a href="/wiki/Church_(building)" title="Church (building)">church</a> in <a href="/wiki/Lahore" title="Lahore">Lahore</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Easter" title="Easter">Easter</a> Sunday, two suicide jackets, four hand grenades and bullets were provided to them.<a href="#cite_note-85">[83]</a> On 4 September 2019, in a joint operation of <a href="/wiki/Crime_Investigation_Department_(Pakistan)#CID_Balochistan" class="mw-redirect" title="Crime Investigation Department (Pakistan)">Counter Terrorism Department</a>, <a href="/wiki/Federal_Investigation_Agency" title="Federal Investigation Agency">FIA</a> and <a href="/wiki/Balochistan_Police#Organisation" title="Balochistan Police">Balochistan Constabulary</a> at least 6 ISIS militants were killed in an intelligence-based operation in Quetta's Eastern Bypass area. During the operation, one official of the Balochistan Constabulary was killed and eight others from the <a href="/wiki/Crime_Investigation_Department_(Pakistan)#CID_Balochistan" class="mw-redirect" title="Crime Investigation Department (Pakistan)">Counter Terrorism Department</a> were injured.<a href="#cite_note-86">[84]</a> <dl><dt>Mohmand Valley raid</dt></dl> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Mohmand_Valley_raid" title="Mohmand Valley raid">Mohmand Valley raid</a></div> On 26 April 2017, a joint raid operation committed by <a href="/wiki/U.S._Army_Rangers" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Army Rangers">U.S. Army Rangers</a> and Afghan Special Forces in the <a href="/wiki/Nangarhar_Province" title="Nangarhar Province">Nangarhar Province</a> resulted in the death of Sheikh Abdul Hasib, the leader of IS in Afghanistan. Along with Hasib, a number of other commanders of <a href="/wiki/ISIL" class="mw-redirect" title="ISIL">IS</a> were killed according to a statement by the U.S. military. Two U.S. soldiers died during the operation, possibly due to friendly fire.<a href="#cite_note-87">[85]</a> On 1 January 2019, Afghan Special Forces attacked ISIS–K in Nangarhar Province's Achin District, killing 27 militants according to officials. Two local ISIS leaders, Sediq Yar and Syed Omar, were reported to be among those killed.<a href="#cite_note-88">[86]</a> On 10 January, senior ISIS–K commander Khetab Emir was also killed in a raid in Nangarhar according to a U.S. forces spokesman. Emir was reported to have facilitated major attacks and provided ISIS–K bombmakers with explosive materials.<a href="#cite_note-89">[87]</a> On 30 April 2019, Afghan government forces undertook clearing operations directed against both ISIS–K and the <a href="/wiki/Taliban" title="Taliban">Taliban</a> in eastern <a href="/wiki/Nangarhar_Province" title="Nangarhar Province">Nangarhar Province</a> after the two groups fought for over a week over a group of villages in an area of illegal <a href="/wiki/Talc" title="Talc">talc</a> mining. The <a href="/wiki/National_Directorate_of_Security" title="National Directorate of Security">National Directorate of Security</a> claimed 22 ISIS–K fighters were killed and two weapons caches destroyed while the Taliban claimed U.S.-backed Afghan forces killed seven civilians; a provincial official said over 9,000 families had been displaced by the fighting.<a href="#cite_note-90">[88]</a> On 21 August 2019, an airstrike killed six militants of IS in Nangarhar province including two Pakistani nationals.<a href="#cite_note-91">[89]</a> <dl><dt>Taliban operations</dt></dl> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Islamic_State%E2%80%93Taliban_conflict" title="Islamic State–Taliban conflict">Islamic State–Taliban conflict</a> and <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Darzab_(2018)" title="Battle of Darzab (2018)">Battle of Darzab (2018)</a></div> In July 2018, the Taliban launched an <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Darzab_(2018)" title="Battle of Darzab (2018)">offensive</a> against IS in the Jowzjan province.<a href="#cite_note-92">[90]</a> <dl><dt>2021 U.S. airstrikes</dt></dl> On 27 August 2021, the United States launched an <a href="/wiki/Airstrike" title="Airstrike">airstrike</a> against three suspected ISIS–K members in <a href="/wiki/Nangarhar_Province" title="Nangarhar Province">Nangarhar Province</a>.<a href="#cite_note-93">[91]</a> On 29 August, a drone attack against a suspected Islamic State bomber in Kabul killed a family of nine, including six children.<a href="#cite_note-ten-94">[92]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Funding">Funding</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Islamic_State_%E2%80%93_Khorasan_Province&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Funding">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Finances_of_the_Islamic_State_%E2%80%93_Khorasan_Province" title="Finances of the Islamic State – Khorasan Province">Finances of the Islamic State – Khorasan Province</a></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:AfMoney-Kabul-MISC-Jan-1052-2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/AfMoney-Kabul-MISC-Jan-1052-2.jpg/268px-AfMoney-Kabul-MISC-Jan-1052-2.jpg" decoding="async" width="268" height="179" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/AfMoney-Kabul-MISC-Jan-1052-2.jpg/402px-AfMoney-Kabul-MISC-Jan-1052-2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/AfMoney-Kabul-MISC-Jan-1052-2.jpg/536px-AfMoney-Kabul-MISC-Jan-1052-2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="683" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Hawala" title="Hawala">Hawala</a> money market in Kabul</figcaption></figure> ISIS–K sustains its operations through a complex financing structure that draws on diverse sources.<a href="#cite_note-:42-29">[28]</a> ISIS–K has benefitted significantly from financial support originating from the broader ISIS network, particularly from the central leadership. This internal coordination allows for a consistent inflow of funds, showcasing the interconnected nature of various ISIS factions. While the exact mechanisms of this financial relationship remain undisclosed, it is evident that support from ISIS-Central plays a pivotal role in strengthening ISIS–K's operational capacity. This internal funding stream highlighted the cohesive financial structure within the broader Islamic State.<a href="#cite_note-:42-29">[28]</a> Controlled territories became a key source of revenue for ISIS–K through the implementation of a taxation system. The group levies taxes on local populations and businesses, demonstrating a degree of financial autonomy within its operational zones. This strategy allowed ISIS–K to extract resources directly from the communities it governed, contributing to its self-sufficiency. The local taxation approach reflects the group's ability to exploit the economic resources of the territories under its control, emphasizing a dynamic financial strategy tailored to the circumstances of each region.<a href="#cite_note-:42-29">[28]</a> ISIS–K actively seeks external funding from sympathetic patrons, including wealthy individuals from <a href="/wiki/Arab_states_of_the_Persian_Gulf" title="Arab states of the Persian Gulf">Gulf countries</a> such as Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Donations from these sources, coupled with collaborations with individuals willing to contribute resources, constitute a significant portion of the group's financial support. External funding not only provides an additional layer of financial backing but also highlighted the global network that ISIS–K tapped into for resources. Moreover, engaging in criminal enterprises, such as human trafficking and smuggling, further diversify ISIS–K's funding sources. The group's adaptability in generating funds from both international and illicit channels showcased a multifaceted financial strategy.<a href="#cite_note-:42-29">[28]</a> ISIS–K engaged in various criminal enterprises, including human trafficking and smuggling, to bolster its financial resources. These illicit activities served as additional streams of income, contributing to the group's financial resilience. The involvement in criminal enterprises demonstrated ISIS–K's ability to adapt its funding strategies, indicating a level of sophistication in navigating a range of revenue-generating activities.<a href="#cite_note-:42-29">[28]</a> Overall, ISIS–K's financing structure is characterized by a combination of internal support from ISIS-Central, local taxation in controlled territories, external funding from sympathetic patrons, and engagement in criminal enterprises.<a href="#cite_note-:42-29">[28]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Analysis">Analysis</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Islamic_State_%E2%80%93_Khorasan_Province&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Analysis">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Taliban_-_ISIS-K_relations">Taliban - ISIS-K relations</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Islamic_State_%E2%80%93_Khorasan_Province&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Taliban - ISIS-K relations">edit</a>]</div> Since the Taliban took control of the Afghan central government following the United States withdrawal and collapse of the <a href="/wiki/Afghan_Army" title="Afghan Army">Afghan National Army</a> (ANA) in August 2021, the Taliban has been locked in a violent <a href="/wiki/Counterinsurgency" title="Counterinsurgency">counterinsurgency</a> struggle against ISIS–K.<a href="#cite_note-95">[93]</a> The Taliban-led <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan</a> has sought international legitimacy by demonstrating its efforts to curb terrorism and secure national sovereignty over Afghan territory, namely for prospects of international investment to reverse <a href="/wiki/Economy_of_Afghanistan" title="Economy of Afghanistan">Afghanistan's increasing poverty</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:2-96">[94]</a><a href="#cite_note-97">[95]</a> ISIS–K, seeking to establish the Khorasan Province of a greater Islamic State on Afghan territory, principally seeks to undermine the so-called '<a href="/wiki/Apostasy_in_Islam" title="Apostasy in Islam">apostate</a>' and 'Western <a href="/wiki/Puppet_state" title="Puppet state">puppet</a>' Taliban regime in hopes of once again regaining control of Afghan territory.<a href="#cite_note-98">[96]</a><a href="#cite_note-99">[97]</a> Beginning in late 2022 and continuing through 2023, ISIS–K has launched attacks on diplomats from the <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">People's Republic of China</a><a href="#cite_note-:0-100">[98]</a><a href="#cite_note-:1-101">[99]</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Islamic Republic of Pakistan</a>,<a href="#cite_note-:0-100">[98]</a> nations with warmer relations towards the Taliban,<a href="#cite_note-102">[100]</a> aiming to deter foreign recognition, investment, or support to the Taliban government through violent attacks exhibiting Taliban failures to provide security.<a href="#cite_note-:2-96">[94]</a> Today, ISIS–K is engaged in a protracted, <a href="/wiki/Low-intensity_conflict" title="Low-intensity conflict">low-intensity conflict</a> with the <a href="/wiki/Government_of_Afghanistan" title="Government of Afghanistan">Taliban government</a>. Though the Taliban and ISIS–K actively fought against the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>, ISIS-K has long maintained a greater operational focus on attacking <a href="/wiki/Taliban" title="Taliban">Taliban</a> targets. The Taliban, on the other hand, have made <a href="/wiki/Islamic_State%E2%80%93Taliban_conflict" title="Islamic State–Taliban conflict">efforts</a> of debated effectiveness to target ISIS–K militants through violent <a href="/wiki/Raid_(military)" title="Raid (military)">raids</a>, protect foreign diplomats and investors from ISIS–K attacks, and publicly downplay the presence of ISIS in the country to attract foreign recognition and investment, as well as to demonstrate compliance with the <a href="/wiki/United_States%E2%80%93Taliban_deal" title="United States–Taliban deal">Doha Accord.</a> Despite the continued opposition between ISIS–K and the Taliban, there exist infrequent cases of the two groups' cooperation during the NATO war in Afghanistan, primarily in the form of attacks on the minority Shia <a href="/wiki/Hazaras" title="Hazaras">Hazara</a>. In August 2017, the Taliban and ISIS–K jointly launched a major attack against some <a href="/wiki/Hazaras" title="Hazaras">Hazara</a> minority villages in northern Afghanistan and brutally slaughtered dozens of Hazara men, women and children in <a href="/wiki/Sar-e_Pol_Province" title="Sar-e Pol Province">Sar-e Pol Province</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:4-19">[18]</a><a href="#cite_note-:5-20">[19]</a><a href="#cite_note-:6-21">[20]</a> The National Security Department of the <a href="/wiki/Islamic_Republic_of_Afghanistan" title="Islamic Republic of Afghanistan">former Afghan government</a> has also stated many times that the <a href="/wiki/Haqqani_network" title="Haqqani network">Haqqani network</a> and the Taliban, supports ISKP fighters.<a href="#cite_note-103">[101]</a><a href="#cite_note-Gohel-22">[21]</a> Taliban leveraging ISKP threat to present itself as counterterrorism partner By portraying themselves as a counterweight against the extremism of ISKP, has sought to gain legitimacy and support from various nations.<a href="#cite_note-104">[102]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Membership">Membership</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Islamic_State_%E2%80%93_Khorasan_Province&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Membership">edit</a>]</div> According to a <a href="/wiki/UN" class="mw-redirect" title="UN">UN</a> report, up to 70 IS fighters arrived from Iraq and Syria to form the initial core of the group in Afghanistan.<a href="#cite_note-gainingground-105">[103]</a> Most of the group's membership growth has come from recruiting Afghan defectors from the Taliban.<a href="#cite_note-turfwar-106">[104]</a> In Afghanistan, IS has not only been recruiting from the villages but also the urban middle class and specifically targeting the universities, as lecturers in <a href="/wiki/Islamic_law" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamic law">Islamic law</a> as well as students at <a href="/wiki/Kabul_University" title="Kabul University">Kabul University</a> have pledged allegiance to the group.<a href="#cite_note-107">[105]</a> Foreign fighters from Pakistan and Uzbekistan are also known to be part of the group.<a href="#cite_note-turfwar-106">[104]</a> Other foreign fighters have included Indians, with 14 <a href="/wiki/Kerala" title="Kerala">Keralites</a> having been freed by the Taliban from prison following the <a href="/wiki/Fall_of_Kabul_(2021)" title="Fall of Kabul (2021)">fall of Kabul</a>.<a href="#cite_note-108">[106]</a> The Taliban also claimed that two <a href="/wiki/Malaysians" title="Malaysians">Malaysians</a> of ISIS–K were caught by them following a gun battle in Kabul on August 26, 2021.<a href="#cite_note-:7-30">[29]</a> Individuals from Myanmar and Bangladesh<a href="#cite_note-hopeto-31">[30]</a> have also been part of it, and one known Bangladeshi national of ISIS–K was arrested by the <a href="/wiki/National_Directorate_of_Security" title="National Directorate of Security">Afghan intelligence</a> in 2020.<a href="#cite_note-109">[107]</a> After the <a href="/wiki/Fall_of_Kabul_(2021)" title="Fall of Kabul (2021)">takeover of Kabul</a> by the Taliban in 2021, several members of <a href="/wiki/National_Directorate_of_Security" title="National Directorate of Security">Afghan intelligence agency</a> and <a href="/wiki/Afghan_national_army" class="mw-redirect" title="Afghan national army">Afghan National Army</a> have also joined the Islamic State – Khorasan Province.<a href="#cite_note-110">[108]</a><a href="#cite_note-111">[109]</a> <a href="/wiki/Gulmurod_Khalimov" title="Gulmurod Khalimov">Gulmurod Salimovich Khalimov</a> lieutenant-colonel and commander of the police special forces of the Interior Ministry of Tajikistan until 2015 defected to <a href="/wiki/Islamic_State" title="Islamic State">Islamic state Syria</a> and later joined ISIS-K and became a commander within the group.<a href="#cite_note-112">[110]</a> The promotion of <a href="/wiki/Islamic_extremism" title="Islamic extremism">Islamic extremism</a> through religious schools, while assisting the Taliban in gaining and maintaining power, can also facilitate the recruitment of other Islamic extremist groups, such as ISIS-K<a href="#cite_note-auto1-113">[111]</a> On two occasions, terrorists that were wearing <a href="/wiki/Explosive_belt" title="Explosive belt">suicide vests</a> were arrested by the <a href="/wiki/Islamic_Republic_of_Afghanistan" title="Islamic Republic of Afghanistan">former government’s</a> national security forces from <a href="/wiki/Salafi_jihadism" title="Salafi jihadism">Salafi</a> schools in the <a href="/wiki/Yangi_Qala_District" title="Yangi Qala District">Yengi Qala district</a> of Takhar Province. In particular, <a href="/wiki/Salafi_jihadism" title="Salafi jihadism">Salafi</a> schools operating under the Taliban regime are already aligned with ISIS-K. The complete regulation of religious schools is arduous because the Taliban group itself actively supports their activities and is among the foremost promoters of <a href="/wiki/Islamic_extremism" title="Islamic extremism">Islamic extremism</a> in Afghanistan. These schools are numerous, especially in the northeastern provinces of Afghanistan, with an estimated three to four <a href="/wiki/Salafi_jihadism" title="Salafi jihadism">Salafi schools</a> in each district<a href="#cite_note-auto1-113">[111]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Leaders">Leaders</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Islamic_State_%E2%80%93_Khorasan_Province&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Leaders">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Caliphate" title="Caliphate">Caliphate</a>, <a href="/wiki/Emir" title="Emir">Emir</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Wali_(administrative_title)" title="Wali (administrative title)">Wali (administrative title)</a></div> In line with the Islamic State's overall aims to re-establish an <a href="/wiki/Caliphate" title="Caliphate">Islamic caliphate</a>, like those of the <a href="/wiki/Rashidun_Caliphate" title="Rashidun Caliphate">Rashidun Caliphate</a> ruled by <a href="/wiki/Muhammad" title="Muhammad">Muhammad's</a> successors, Caliphs <a href="/wiki/Abu_Bakr" title="Abu Bakr">Abu Bakr</a>, <a href="/wiki/Umar" title="Umar">Umar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Uthman" title="Uthman">Uthman</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Ali" title="Ali">Ali</a>, the Islamic State and ISIS–K use the same historic titles for leaders. The head of the Islamic State's envisioned caliphate, with <a href="/wiki/Abu_Bakr_al-Baghdadi" title="Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi">Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi</a> (29 June 2014 – 27 October 2019) the longest serving, is known as the 'Caliph' (خَلِيفَةْ) to all members of the organization. Leaders of the Islamic State's regional provinces ('Wilayah') such as ISIS–K and <a href="/wiki/Islamic_State_%E2%80%93_West_Africa_Province" title="Islamic State – West Africa Province">ISWAP</a>, are referred to as '<a href="/wiki/Wali_(administrative_title)" title="Wali (administrative title)">Wali</a>' (<a href="/wiki/Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a>: والي), often translated as 'governor'. As an example, during the <a href="/wiki/Umayyad_Caliphate" title="Umayyad Caliphate">Umayyad Caliphate</a> (661–750 CE) <a href="/wiki/Nasr_ibn_Sayyar" title="Nasr ibn Sayyar">Nasr ibn Sayyar</a> served as the last Wali (governor) of Khurasan Province, appointed under Caliph <a href="/wiki/Hisham_ibn_Abd_al-Malik" title="Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik">Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik</a> and serving under the final five caliphs of the Umayyad Caliphate until he was ejected into <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Persia</a> by forces of the new <a href="/wiki/Abbasid_Caliphate" title="Abbasid Caliphate">Abbasid Caliphate</a> (750–1258 CE). Leaders at every level are referred to as '<a href="/wiki/Emir" title="Emir">emir</a>' (<a href="/wiki/Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a>: أمير) which has been variously translated as 'commander' or 'chief'. Emirs serve at various levels to include functional emirs (e.g. external operations emir), organizational emirs (e.g. finance commission emir), or territorial emirs (e.g. provincial emir, district emir). <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Wali of the Islamic State's Khorasan Province </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>No. </th> <th>Wali </th> <th>Birthplace </th> <th>Ascent </th> <th>Departure </th> <th>Reason for Departure </th> <th>Duration </th> <th>Caliph </th></tr> <tr> <td>1 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Hafiz_Saeed_Khan" title="Hafiz Saeed Khan">Hafiz Saeed Khan</a> (Maulawi Hafiz Saeed Khan Orakzai) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan"><img alt="Pakistan" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Flag_of_Pakistan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Flag_of_Pakistan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Flag_of_Pakistan.svg/45px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a> <a href="/wiki/Orakzai_District" title="Orakzai District">Orakzai Agency</a> </td> <td>11 January 2015 </td> <td>26 July 2016 </td> <td>Killed in US drone strike<a href="#cite_note-114">[112]</a> </td> <td>1 year, 18 months, 197 days </td> <td rowspan="5"><a href="/wiki/Abu_Bakr_al-Baghdadi" title="Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi">Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi</a> (29 Jun 2014 – 27 Oct 2019) </td></tr> <tr> <td>2 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Abdul_Haseeb_Logari" title="Abdul Haseeb Logari">Abdul Haseeb Logari</a> (Abu 'Umayr 'Abd al-Hasib al-Logari) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan"><img alt="Pakistan" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Flag_of_Pakistan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Flag_of_Pakistan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Flag_of_Pakistan.svg/45px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a> <a href="/wiki/Kurram_District" title="Kurram District">Kurram Agency</a> </td> <td>27 July 2016 </td> <td>26 April 2017 </td> <td>Killed in US military raid<a href="#cite_note-115">[113]</a> </td> <td>1 year, 9 months, 274 days </td></tr> <tr> <td>3 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Abdul_Rahman_Ghaleb" title="Abdul Rahman Ghaleb">Abdul Rahman Ghaleb</a> (Abu Sayed Bajauri) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan"><img alt="Pakistan" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Flag_of_Pakistan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Flag_of_Pakistan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Flag_of_Pakistan.svg/45px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a> <a href="/wiki/Bajaur_District" title="Bajaur District">Bajaur Agency</a> </td> <td>27 April 2017 </td> <td>11 July 2017 </td> <td>Killed in US drone strike<a href="#cite_note-116">[114]</a> </td> <td>2 months, 75 days </td></tr> <tr> <td>4 </td> <td>Abu Saad Erhabi </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan"><img alt="Pakistan" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Flag_of_Pakistan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Flag_of_Pakistan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Flag_of_Pakistan.svg/45px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a> <a href="/wiki/Orakzai_District" title="Orakzai District">Orakzai Agency</a> </td> <td>12 July 2017 </td> <td>25 August 2018 </td> <td>Killed in US, <a href="/wiki/National_Directorate_of_Security" title="National Directorate of Security">NDS</a> raid<a href="#cite_note-117">[115]</a> </td> <td>1 year, 1 month, 44 days </td></tr> <tr> <td>5 </td> <td>Ziya ul-Haq (Abu Omar al-Khorasani) </td> <td>Unknown </td> <td>26 August 2018 </td> <td>April 2019 </td> <td>Dismissed for poor performance<a href="#cite_note-118">[116]</a> </td> <td>4 months </td></tr> <tr> <td>6 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mawlawi_Aslam_Farooqi" title="Mawlawi Aslam Farooqi">Mawlawi Aslam Farooqi</a> (Mawlawi Abdullah Orakzai) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan"><img alt="Pakistan" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Flag_of_Pakistan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Flag_of_Pakistan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Flag_of_Pakistan.svg/45px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a> <a href="/wiki/Orakzai_District" title="Orakzai District">Orakzai Agency</a> </td> <td>April 2019 </td> <td>4 April 2020 </td> <td>Arrested by <a href="/wiki/National_Directorate_of_Security" title="National Directorate of Security">Afghan NDS</a><a href="#cite_note-119">[117]</a> </td> <td>1 year </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Abu_Bakr_al-Baghdadi" title="Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi">Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi</a> (until 27 Oct 2019) <a href="/wiki/Abu_Ibrahim_al-Hashimi_al-Qurashi" title="Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi">Amir Mohammad Abdul Rahman al-Mawli al-Salbi</a> (from 31 Oct 2019) </td></tr> <tr> <td>7 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Shahab_al-Muhajir" title="Shahab al-Muhajir">Shahab al-Muhajir</a> (Sanaullah Ghafari) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan"><img alt="Afghanistan" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_the_Taliban.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Taliban.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_the_Taliban.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Taliban.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_the_Taliban.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_Taliban.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="500" /></a> <a href="/wiki/Kabul" title="Kabul">Kabul City</a> </td> <td>5 April 2020 </td> <td colspan="2">Incumbent </td> <td>4 years, 7 months, and 17 days </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Abu_Ibrahim_al-Hashimi_al-Qurashi" title="Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi">Amir Mohammad Abdul Rahman al-Mawli al-Salbi</a> (until 3 Feb 2022) <a href="/wiki/Abu_al-Hasan_al-Hashimi_al-Qurashi" title="Abu al-Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi">Nour Karim al-Mutni al-Baidi al-Rifai</a> (4 Feb 2022 to 15 Oct 2022) <a href="/wiki/Abu_al-Hussein_al-Husseini_al-Qurashi" title="Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi">Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi</a> (30 Nov 2022 to 3 Aug 2023) <a href="/wiki/Abu_Hafs_al-Hashimi_al-Qurashi" title="Abu Hafs al-Hashimi al-Qurashi">Abu Hafs al-Hashimi al-Qurashi</a> (since 3 Aug 2023) </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Foothold_and_strategy">Foothold and strategy</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Islamic_State_%E2%80%93_Khorasan_Province&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Foothold and strategy">edit</a>]</div> While the group has managed to establish a foothold in Afghanistan, it has largely carried out isolated, smaller-scale attacks in Pakistan.<a href="#cite_note-auto-120">[118]</a> The group has also failed to establish a foothold in Pakistan because of <a href="/wiki/Counterterrorism" title="Counterterrorism">anti-terrorism operations</a> conducted by Pakistan's law enforcement agencies against the group. A series of successful operations by US, Afghan and coalition forces in Afghanistan against the group has also crippled the group's ability to operate in the region.<a href="#cite_note-121">[119]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Designation_as_a_terrorist_organization">Designation as a terrorist organization</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Islamic_State_%E2%80%93_Khorasan_Province&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Designation as a terrorist organization">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Islamic_State#Designation_as_a_terrorist_organisation" title="Islamic State">Islamic State § Designation as a terrorist organisation</a>, and <a href="/wiki/List_of_designated_terrorist_groups" title="List of designated terrorist groups">List of designated terrorist groups</a></div> Many nations effectively designate ISIS–K as a terrorist organization as a subordinate element of the larger Islamic State, though not listing it separately. On 14 May 2019, the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council" title="United Nations Security Council">United Nations Security Council</a>'s (UNSC) <a href="/wiki/ISIL_(Da%27esh)_and_Al-Qaida_Sanctions_Committee" title="ISIL (Da'esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee">ISIL (Da'esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee</a> listed "The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – Khorasan" as designated entity QDe.161, the first ISIS affiliate to be individually designated by the United Nations.<a href="#cite_note-122">[120]</a> Immediately following, some states automatically adopted the UN designation of ISIS–K. <table class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center"> <tbody><tr> <th>Country </th> <th>Date </th> <th>Reference </th></tr> <tr> <td align="left"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Flag_of_the_United_States_%2823px%29.png/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%2823px%29.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Flag_of_the_United_States_%2823px%29.png/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%2823px%29.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Flag_of_the_United_States_%2823px%29.png/46px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%2823px%29.png 2x" data-file-width="69" data-file-height="39" /> <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> </td> <td>14 January 2016 </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-123">[121]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="left"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="640" /> <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a> </td> <td>3 November 2017 </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-124">[122]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="left"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a> </td> <td>23 May 2018 </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-125">[123]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="left"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/23px-Flag_of_India.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/35px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/45px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a> </td> <td>21 June 2018 </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-126">[124]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="left"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Flag_of_the_United_Nations.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_Nations.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Flag_of_the_United_Nations.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_Nations.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Flag_of_the_United_Nations.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_United_Nations.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /> <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a> </td> <td>14 May 2019 </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-127">[125]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="left"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/23px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/35px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/46px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="500" /> <a href="/wiki/Argentina" title="Argentina">Argentina</a> </td> <td>14 May 2019 </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-128">[126]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="left"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg/23px-Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg/35px-Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg/46px-Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand" title="New Zealand">New Zealand</a> </td> <td>14 May 2019 </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-129">[127]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="left"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Flag_of_Iraq.svg/23px-Flag_of_Iraq.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Flag_of_Iraq.svg/35px-Flag_of_Iraq.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Flag_of_Iraq.svg/45px-Flag_of_Iraq.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraq</a> </td> <td>16 May 2019 </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-130">[128]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="left"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_the_Taliban.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Taliban.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_the_Taliban.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Taliban.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_the_Taliban.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_Taliban.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="500" /> <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a> </td> <td>3 July 2022 </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-131">[129]</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Media">Media</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Islamic_State_%E2%80%93_Khorasan_Province&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Media">edit</a>]</div> ISIS–K is a prolific producer of propaganda, outdone only by the Islamic State's core in Iraq and Syria. ISIS–K publishes and circulates a variety of materials through the al-Azaim Media Foundation (<a href="/wiki/Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a>: مؤسسة العزائم, <a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Arabic" title="Romanization of Arabic">romanized</a>: Muasasat al-A'zayim) for Media Production, whose status as an official element of ISIS–K experts disagree on as the group has yet to claim or disclaim them. Notably, the al-Azaim Foundation has been known to issue claims of attacks before <a href="/wiki/Amaq_News_Agency" title="Amaq News Agency">al-Amaq News Agency</a>, the Islamic State's foremost source for claims of attacks by any Islamic State affiliate. Al-Azaim, which publishes nearly all ISIS–K propaganda, appeared publicly in August 2021 as the US withdrew its forces and the Taliban took power in Kabul.<a href="#cite_note-132">[130]</a> Prior to the Taliban takeover, ISIS–K propaganda was produced and distributed by multiple organizations including Khalid Media (responsible for video statements) and Black Flags (audio and text statements), until their 2021 consolidation into al-Azaim. Content for al-Azaim is often written and submitted by sympathizers and supporters in the region, about 70% of which is originally published in <a href="/wiki/Pashto" title="Pashto">Pashto</a>, however many supporters provide translation services of al-Azaim's content and that of the Islamic State's publications into Pashto, <a href="/wiki/Dari" title="Dari">Dari</a>, <a href="/wiki/Urdu" title="Urdu">Urdu</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tajikistan" title="Tajikistan">Tajik</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bengali_language" title="Bengali language">Bengali</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hindi" title="Hindi">Hindi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian</a>, and sometimes <a href="/wiki/Arabic" title="Arabic">Arabic</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tamil_language" title="Tamil language">Tamil</a>, <a href="/wiki/Malayalam" title="Malayalam">Malayalam</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Uyghur_language" title="Uyghur language">Uyghur</a>. Al-Azaim primarily disseminates its content through <a href="/wiki/Telegram_(software)" title="Telegram (software)">Telegram</a>, <a href="/wiki/X_(social_media_platform)" class="mw-redirect" title="X (social media platform)">X</a> (formerly Twitter), <a href="/w/index.php?title=Rocket.chat&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rocket.chat (page does not exist)">Rocket.chat</a>, and others. In 2022, amidst raids by the Taliban General Directorate of Intelligence (GDI) against ISIS–K targets, GDI had infiltrated a number of ISIS–K channels which had temporarily disrupted content distribution.<a href="#cite_note-133">[131]</a><a href="#cite_note-:23-134">[132]</a><a href="#cite_note-135">[133]</a> Beyond books, monographs, videos, and letters, al-Azaim Foundation is best known for its production of regular newsletters and magazines, most famous of which are Khorasan Ghag (lit. 'Voice of Khorasan') magazine in Pashto, the Voice of Khurasan magazine in English, and Yalghar (lit. 'Attack') in Urdu. Although addressing modern events in newsletters and magazines, discrediting the Taliban as religious leaders, political leaders, and guarantors of security occupy the bulk of ISIS–K propaganda.<a href="#cite_note-:23-134">[132]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Islamic_State_%E2%80%93_Khorasan_Province&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239009302">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);padding:0.1em;background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa)}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-entry{display:table-row;font-size:85%;line-height:110%;height:1.9em;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output 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Province">Finances of the Islamic State – Khorasan Province</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_drone_strikes_in_Afghanistan" title="List of drone strikes in Afghanistan">List of drone strikes in Afghanistan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_terrorist_attacks_in_Kabul" title="List of terrorist attacks in Kabul">List of terrorist attacks in Kabul</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Islamic_State_%E2%80%93_Khorasan_Province&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: References">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output 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language">Pashto</a>: اسلامي دولت – خراسان ولایت, romanized: islami dolat – kharasan walayat, <a href="/wiki/Urdu_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Urdu language">Urdu</a>: اسلامک اسٹیٹ - صوبہ خراسان, <a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Urdu" class="mw-redirect" title="Romanization of Urdu">romanized</a>: islamk state - subah kharasan </li> <li id="cite_note-68"><a href="#cite_ref-68">^</a> note to editor: the 2022 Shiraz attack in Iran might have been the third external attack, as the attacker was Tajik, and he was allegedly trained in Afghanistan </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-alarabia.net-1">^ <a href="#cite_ref-alarabia.net_1-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-alarabia.net_1-1">b</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output 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Today, Al-Azaim Media Foundation published a 842 pages long book titled "Golden papers in the knowledge of the national Taliban", a collection of ISKP studies on the TB compiled by Sheikh Abu Saad Muhammad Al-Khurasani 1/9"</a> (<a href="/wiki/Tweet_(social_media)" title="Tweet (social media)">Tweet</a>) – via <a href="/wiki/Twitter" title="Twitter">Twitter</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=ISKP+local+channels+have+boosted+their+anti-TB+campaign.+Today%2C+Al-Azaim+Media+Foundation+published+a+842+pages+long+book+titled+%22Golden+papers+in+the+knowledge+of+the+national+Taliban%22%2C+a+collection+of+ISKP+studies+on+the+TB+compiled+by+Sheikh+Abu+Saad+Muhammad+Al-Khurasani+1%2F9&rft.date=2021-08-18&rft.aulast=Valley&rft.aufirst=Riccardo&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fx.com%2FValle_Riccardo_%2Fstatus%2F1427952402792071170&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIslamic+State+%E2%80%93+Khorasan+Province" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-133"><a href="#cite_ref-133">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWebberValle2022" class="citation news cs1">Webber, Lucas; Valle, Riccardo (26 August 2022). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://thediplomat.com/2022/08/islamic-state-khorasans-expanded-vision-in-south-and-central-asia/">"Islamic State Khorasan's Expanded Vision in South and Central Asia"</a>. <a href="/wiki/The_Diplomat" title="The Diplomat">The Diplomat</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Diplomat&rft.atitle=Islamic+State+Khorasan%27s+Expanded+Vision+in+South+and+Central+Asia&rft.date=2022-08-26&rft.aulast=Webber&rft.aufirst=Lucas&rft.au=Valle%2C+Riccardo&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fthediplomat.com%2F2022%2F08%2Fislamic-state-khorasans-expanded-vision-in-south-and-central-asia%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIslamic+State+%E2%80%93+Khorasan+Province" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-:23-134">^ <a href="#cite_ref-:23_134-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-:23_134-1">b</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWebber2022" class="citation news cs1">Webber, Lucas (6 May 2022). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://jamestown.org/program/voice-of-khorasan-magazine-and-the-internationalization-of-islamic-states-anti-taliban-propaganda/">"Voice of Khorasan Magazine and the Internationalization of Islamic State's Anti-Taliban Propaganda"</a>. <a href="/wiki/The_Jamestown_Foundation" class="mw-redirect" title="The Jamestown Foundation">The Jamestown Foundation</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Jamestown+Foundation&rft.atitle=Voice+of+Khorasan+Magazine+and+the+Internationalization+of+Islamic+State%27s+Anti-Taliban+Propaganda&rft.date=2022-05-06&rft.aulast=Webber&rft.aufirst=Lucas&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fjamestown.org%2Fprogram%2Fvoice-of-khorasan-magazine-and-the-internationalization-of-islamic-states-anti-taliban-propaganda%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIslamic+State+%E2%80%93+Khorasan+Province" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-135"><a href="#cite_ref-135">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBasit" class="citation web cs1">Basit, Abdul. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.rsis.edu.sg/ctta-newsarticle/afghanistan-pakistans-radical-social-media-ecosystem-actors-propaganda-comparison-and-implications/">"Afghanistan-Pakistan's Radical Social Media Ecosystem: Actors, Propaganda Comparison and Implications"</a>. 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Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=S.+Rajaratnam+School+of+International+Studies%2C+Nanyang+Technological+University%2C+Singapore&rft.atitle=Afghanistan-Pakistan%27s+Radical+Social+Media+Ecosystem%3A+Actors%2C+Propaganda+Comparison+and+Implications&rft.aulast=Basit&rft.aufirst=Abdul&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rsis.edu.sg%2Fctta-newsarticle%2Fafghanistan-pakistans-radical-social-media-ecosystem-actors-propaganda-comparison-and-implications%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIslamic+State+%E2%80%93+Khorasan+Province" class="Z3988"> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Islamic_State_%E2%80%93_Khorasan_Province&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Further reading">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGiustozzi2018" class="citation book cs1">Giustozzi, Antonio (2018). The Islamic State in Khorasan: Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the New Central Asian Jihad. United Kingdom: <a href="/wiki/C._Hurst_%26_Co." title="C. Hurst & Co.">C. Hurst & Co.</a> <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781849049641" title="Special:BookSources/9781849049641"><bdi>9781849049641</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Islamic+State+in+Khorasan%3A+Afghanistan%2C+Pakistan%2C+and+the+New+Central+Asian+Jihad&rft.place=United+Kingdom&rft.pub=C.+Hurst+%26+Co.&rft.date=2018&rft.isbn=9781849049641&rft.aulast=Giustozzi&rft.aufirst=Antonio&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIslamic+State+%E2%80%93+Khorasan+Province" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJadoonMines2023" class="citation book cs1">Jadoon, Amira; Mines, Andrew (2023). The Islamic State in Afghanistan and Pakistan: Strategic Alliances and Rivalries. Boulder, Colorado: <a href="/wiki/Lynne_Rienner_Publishers" title="Lynne Rienner Publishers">Lynne Rienner Publishers</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781955055857" title="Special:BookSources/9781955055857"><bdi>9781955055857</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/LCCN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="LCCN (identifier)">LCCN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://lccn.loc.gov/2022043166">2022043166</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Islamic+State+in+Afghanistan+and+Pakistan%3A+Strategic+Alliances+and+Rivalries&rft.place=Boulder%2C+Colorado&rft.pub=Lynne+Rienner+Publishers&rft.date=2023&rft_id=info%3Alccn%2F2022043166&rft.isbn=9781955055857&rft.aulast=Jadoon&rft.aufirst=Amira&rft.au=Mines%2C+Andrew&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIslamic+State+%E2%80%93+Khorasan+Province" 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al-Baraa el-Azdi">Abu al-Baraa el-Azdi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abu_Habib_al-Libi" title="Abu Habib al-Libi">Abu Habib al-Libi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abu_Jandal_al-Masri" title="Abu Jandal al-Masri">Abu Jandal al-Masri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zulfi_Hoxha" title="Zulfi Hoxha">Zulfi Hoxha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bajro_Ikanovi%C4%87" title="Bajro Ikanović">Bajro Ikanović</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Faysal_Ahmad_Ali_al-Zahrani" title="Faysal Ahmad Ali al-Zahrani">Faysal Ahmad Ali al-Zahrani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fatiha_Mejjati" title="Fatiha Mejjati">Fatiha Mejjati</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ahlam_al-Nasr" title="Ahlam al-Nasr">Ahlam al-Nasr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Issam_Abuanza" title="Issam Abuanza">Issam Abuanza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Musa_Baluku" title="Musa Baluku">Musa Baluku</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"> <a href="/wiki/Killed_in_action" title="Killed in action">†</a> Former</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abu_Bakr_al-Baghdadi" title="Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi">Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abu_Ibrahim_al-Hashimi_al-Qurashi" title="Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi">Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abu_al-Hasan_al-Hashimi_al-Qurashi" title="Abu al-Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi">Abu al-Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abu_al-Hussein_al-Husseini_al-Qurashi" title="Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi">Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abu_Ahmad_al-Alwani" title="Abu Ahmad al-Alwani">Abu Ahmad al-Alwani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Haji_Bakr" title="Haji Bakr">Haji Bakr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abu_Usamah_al-Maghrebi" title="Abu Usamah al-Maghrebi">Abu Usamah al-Maghrebi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abu_Abdulrahman_al-Bilawi" title="Abu Abdulrahman al-Bilawi">Abu Abdulrahman al-Bilawi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abu_Muhannad_al-Suwaydawi" title="Abu Muhannad al-Suwaydawi">Abu Muhannad al-Suwaydawi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abdul_Rauf_Aliza" title="Abdul Rauf Aliza">Abdul Rauf Aliza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abu_Sayyaf_(Islamic_State_leader)" title="Abu Sayyaf (Islamic State leader)">Abu Sayyaf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ali_Awni_al-Harzi" title="Ali Awni al-Harzi">Ali Awni al-Harzi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tariq_al-Harzi" title="Tariq al-Harzi">Tariq al-Harzi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abu_Khattab_al-Tunisi" title="Abu Khattab al-Tunisi">Abu Khattab al-Tunisi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maher_Meshaal" title="Maher Meshaal">Maher Meshaal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abu_Muslim_al-Turkmani" title="Abu Muslim al-Turkmani">Abu Muslim al-Turkmani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abu_Saleh" title="Abu Saleh">Abu Saleh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jihadi_John" title="Jihadi John">Mohammed Emwazi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abu_Nabil_al-Anbari" title="Abu Nabil al-Anbari">Abu Nabil al-Anbari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abu_Ali_al-Anbari" title="Abu Ali al-Anbari">Abu Ali al-Anbari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abu_Waheeb" title="Abu Waheeb">Abu Waheeb</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ali_Aswad_al-Jiburi" title="Ali Aswad al-Jiburi">Ali Aswad al-Jiburi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abu_Omar_al-Shishani" title="Abu Omar al-Shishani">Abu Omar al-Shishani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/El-Hassen_Ould_Khalill_Jouleibib" class="mw-redirect" title="El-Hassen Ould Khalill Jouleibib">El-Hassen Ould Khalill Jouleibib</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abu_Mohammad_al-Adnani" title="Abu Mohammad al-Adnani">Abu Mohammad al-Adnani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abu_Hamza_Al-Qurashi" title="Abu Hamza Al-Qurashi">Abu Hamza Al-Qurashi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abu_Muhammad_al-Furqan" title="Abu Muhammad al-Furqan">Abu Muhammad al-Furqan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abu_Jandal_al-Kuwaiti" title="Abu Jandal al-Kuwaiti">Abu Jandal al-Kuwaiti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abu_Bilal_al-Harbi" title="Abu Bilal al-Harbi">Abu Bilal al-Harbi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ahmad_Abousamra" title="Ahmad Abousamra">Ahmad Abousamra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turki_al-Binali" title="Turki al-Binali">Turki al-Binali</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tareq_Kamleh" title="Tareq Kamleh">Tareq Kamleh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lavdrim_Muhaxheri" title="Lavdrim Muhaxheri">Lavdrim Muhaxheri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abu_Osama_al-Masri" title="Abu Osama al-Masri">Abu Osama al-Masri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abul-Hasan_al-Muhajir" title="Abul-Hasan al-Muhajir">Abul-Hasan al-Muhajir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abu_Muhammad_al-Shimali" title="Abu Muhammad al-Shimali">Abu Muhammad al-Shimali</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gulmurod_Khalimov" title="Gulmurod Khalimov">Gulmurod Khalimov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abdul_Nasser_Qardash" title="Abdul Nasser Qardash">Abdul Nasser Qardash</a> (captured)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abu_Yasser_al-Issawi" title="Abu Yasser al-Issawi">Abu Yasser al-Issawi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adnan_Abu_Walid_al-Sahrawi" title="Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahrawi">Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahrawi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abu_Hamza_Al-Qurashi" title="Abu Hamza Al-Qurashi">Abu Hamza Al-Qurashi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yusuf_al-Hindi" class="mw-redirect" title="Yusuf al-Hindi">Yusuf al-Hindi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abu_Omar_al-Muhajir" title="Abu Omar al-Muhajir">Abu Omar al-Muhajir</a> (captured)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Othman_al-Nazih" title="Othman al-Nazih">Othman al-Nazih</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jamal_Udeen_Al-Harith" title="Jamal Udeen Al-Harith">Jamal Udeen Al-Harith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aine_Davis" title="Aine Davis">Aine Davis</a> (captured)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexanda_Kotey" title="Alexanda Kotey">Alexanda Kotey</a> (captured)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/El_Shafee_Elsheikh" title="El Shafee Elsheikh">El Shafee Elsheikh</a> (captured)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Denis_Cuspert" title="Denis Cuspert">Denis Cuspert</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abdelhamid_Abaaoud" title="Abdelhamid Abaaoud">Abdelhamid Abaaoud</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boubaker_El_Hakim" title="Boubaker El Hakim">Boubaker El Hakim</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Islamic_State" title="History of the Islamic State">History</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jama%27at_al-Tawhid_wal-Jihad" title="Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad">Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad</a> (1999–2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Qaeda_in_Iraq" title="Al-Qaeda in Iraq">Al-Qaeda in Iraq</a> (2004–2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mujahideen_Shura_Council_(Iraq)" title="Mujahideen Shura Council (Iraq)">Mujahideen Shura Council</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq" title="Islamic State of Iraq">Islamic State of Iraq</a> (2006–2013)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islamic_State#Name" title="Islamic State">Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant</a> (2013–2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islamic_State" title="Islamic State">Islamic State</a> (2014–present)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents_linked_to_the_Islamic_State" title="List of terrorist incidents linked to the Islamic State">Timeline of events</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Islamic_State_(2013)" title="Timeline of the Islamic State (2013)">2013</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Islamic_State_(2014)" title="Timeline of the Islamic State (2014)">2014</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Islamic_State_(2015)" title="Timeline of the Islamic State (2015)">2015</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Islamic_State_(2016)" title="Timeline of the Islamic State (2016)">2016</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Islamic_State_(2017)" title="Timeline of the Islamic State (2017)">2017</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Islamic_State_(2018)" title="Timeline of the Islamic State (2018)">2018</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Islamic_State_(2019)" title="Timeline of the Islamic State (2019)">2019</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Islamic_State_(2020)" title="Timeline of the Islamic State (2020)">2020</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents_linked_to_the_Islamic_State#2021" title="List of terrorist incidents linked to the Islamic State">2021</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents_linked_to_the_Islamic_State#2022" title="List of terrorist incidents linked to the Islamic State">2022</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents_linked_to_the_Islamic_State#2023" title="List of terrorist incidents linked to the Islamic State">2023</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Islamic_State_(2024)" title="Timeline of the Islamic State (2024)">2024</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Territory_of_the_Islamic_State#Specific_territorial_claims" title="Territory of the Islamic State">Groups</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">International branches</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Khorasan Province (Afghanistan and Pakistan)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islamic_State_%E2%80%93_Libya_Province" title="Islamic State – Libya Province">Libyan Provinces (Libya)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islamic_State_%E2%80%93_Caucasus_Province" title="Islamic State – Caucasus Province">Caucasus Province (North Caucasus, Russia)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islamic_State_%E2%80%93_Sinai_Province" title="Islamic State – Sinai Province">Sinai Province (Sinai, Egypt)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islamic_State_%E2%80%93_Algeria_Province" title="Islamic State – Algeria Province">Algeria Province (Algeria)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islamic_State_%E2%80%93_Yemen_Province" title="Islamic State – Yemen Province">Yemen Province (Yemen)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islamic_State_in_Somalia" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamic State in Somalia">Abnaa ul-Khilafah (Somalia and Somaliland)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islamic_State_%E2%80%93_Bengal_Province" title="Islamic State – Bengal Province">Bengal Province (Bangladesh)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boko_Haram" title="Boko Haram">Boko Haram (Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Mali)</a> (2015–2016)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islamic_State_%E2%80%93_West_Africa_Province" title="Islamic State – West Africa Province">West Africa Province (Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and Niger)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islamic_State_%E2%80%93_Central_Africa_Province" title="Islamic State – Central Africa Province">Central Africa Province (DR Congo and Uganda)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islamic_State_%E2%80%93_Sahil_Province" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamic State – Sahil Province">Sahil Province (Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islamic_State_%E2%80%93_Hind_Province" title="Islamic State – Hind Province">Hind Province (India)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islamic_State_%E2%80%93_Pakistan_Province" title="Islamic State – Pakistan Province">Pakistan Province ((Pakistan)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islamic_State_%E2%80%93_Turkey_Province" title="Islamic State – Turkey Province">Turkey Province (Turkey)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Islamic_State_%E2%80%93_Mozambique_Province&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Islamic State – Mozambique Province (page does not exist)">Mozambique Province (Mozambique)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khalid_ibn_al-Walid_Army" title="Khalid ibn al-Walid Army">Khalid ibn al-Walid Army (Syria)</a> (2016–2018)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sheikh_Omar_Hadid_Brigade" title="Sheikh Omar Hadid Brigade">Sheikh Omar Hadid Brigade (Gaza)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abu_Sayyaf" title="Abu Sayyaf">Abu Sayyaf (Philippines)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ansar_Khalifa_Philippines" title="Ansar Khalifa Philippines">Ansar Khalifa (Philippines)</a> (2014–2021)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ansar_al-Khilafah_Brazil" title="Ansar al-Khilafah Brazil">Ansar al-Khilafah Brazil (Brazil)</a> (2016–2018)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Indonesia_Mujahideen" title="East Indonesia Mujahideen">East Indonesia Mujahideen (Indonesia)</a> (2014–2022)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Unorganized cells</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Territory_of_the_Islamic_State#Azerbaijan" title="Territory of the Islamic State">Azerbaijan Province (Azerbaijan)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islamic_State_in_Jammu_and_Kashmir" title="Islamic State in Jammu and Kashmir">Jammu and Kashmir Province (Jammu and Kashmir)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islamic_State_in_Kurdistan" title="Islamic State in Kurdistan">Kurdistan Province (Kurdistan)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Territory_of_the_Islamic_State#Saudi_Arabia" title="Territory of the Islamic State">Haramayn Province (Saudi Arabia and Bahrain)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Territory_of_the_Islamic_State#Lebanon_and_Tunisia" title="Territory of the Islamic State">Lebanon Province (Lebanon)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Territory_of_the_Islamic_State#Lebanon_and_Tunisia" title="Territory of the Islamic State">Jund al Khilafah in Tunisia (Tunisia)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brussels_Islamic_State_terror_cell" title="Brussels Islamic State terror cell">Brussels Islamic State terror cell (Belgium)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_wars_and_battles_involving_the_Islamic_State" title="List of wars and battles involving the Islamic State">Wars</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/War_on_terror" title="War on terror">War on terror</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iraq_War" title="Iraq War">Iraq War</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Iraqi_insurgency_(2003%E2%80%932011)" title="Iraqi insurgency (2003–2011)">Insurgency (2003–2011)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iraqi_civil_war_(2006%E2%80%932008)" title="Iraqi civil war (2006–2008)">Iraqi civil war (2006–2008)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iraqi_insurgency_(2011%E2%80%932013)" title="Iraqi insurgency (2011–2013)">Insurgency (2011–2013)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/War_in_Iraq_(2013%E2%80%932017)" title="War in Iraq (2013–2017)">War in Iraq (2013–2017)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islamic_State_insurgency_in_Iraq_(2017%E2%80%93present)" title="Islamic State insurgency in Iraq (2017–present)">Insurgency (2017–present)</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Syrian_civil_war" title="Syrian civil war">Syrian civil war</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Spillover_of_the_Syrian_civil_war" title="Spillover of the Syrian civil war">Spillover</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Syrian_civil_war_spillover_in_Lebanon" title="Syrian civil war spillover in Lebanon">Spillover in Lebanon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Opposition%E2%80%93Islamic_State_conflict_during_the_Syrian_civil_war" title="Opposition–Islamic State conflict during the Syrian civil war">Opposition–Islamic State conflict</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sinai_insurgency" title="Sinai insurgency">Sinai insurgency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Libyan_civil_war_(2014%E2%80%932020)" title="Libyan civil war (2014–2020)">Second Libyan Civil War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Insurgency_in_Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa" title="Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa">Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Insurgency_in_Cabo_Delgado" title="Insurgency in Cabo Delgado">Mozambique</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islamist_insurgency_in_the_Sahel" title="Islamist insurgency in the Sahel">Islamist insurgency in the Sahel</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mali_War" title="Mali War">Mali War</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%932021)" title="War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)">War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Islamic_State%E2%80%93Taliban_conflict" title="Islamic State–Taliban conflict">Conflict with Taliban</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moro_conflict" title="Moro conflict">Moro conflict (1968–2019)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Qaeda_insurgency_in_Yemen" title="Al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen">al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yemeni_civil_war_(2014%E2%80%93present)" title="Yemeni civil war (2014–present)">Yemeni civil war (2014–present)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boko_Haram_insurgency" title="Boko Haram insurgency">Boko Haram insurgency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/War_against_the_Islamic_State" title="War against the Islamic State">Military intervention against IS</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/US-led_intervention_in_Iraq_(2014%E2%80%932021)" title="US-led intervention in Iraq (2014–2021)">US intervention in Iraq</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/US_intervention_in_the_Syrian_civil_war" title="US intervention in the Syrian civil war">US intervention in Syria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russian_intervention_in_the_Syrian_civil_war" title="Russian intervention in the Syrian civil war">Russian intervention in Syria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Euphrates_Shield" title="Operation Euphrates Shield">Turkish operation</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Somali_Civil_War_(2009%E2%80%93present)" title="Somali Civil War (2009–present)">Somalia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_wars_and_battles_involving_the_Islamic_State" title="List of wars and battles involving the Islamic State">Battles</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2013</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Akashat_ambush" title="Akashat ambush">Akashat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2013_Hawija_clashes" title="2013 Hawija clashes">Hawija</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raqqa_campaign_(2012%E2%80%932013)" title="Raqqa campaign (2012–2013)">Raqqa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_al-Shabah" title="Operation al-Shabah">Al-Shabah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Ras_al-Ayn_(2012%E2%80%9313)" title="Battle of Ras al-Ayn (2012–13)">Ras al-Ayn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Tell_Abyad_(2013)" title="Battle of Tell Abyad (2013)">Tell Abyad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2013_Latakia_offensive" title="2013 Latakia offensive">Latakia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Menagh_Air_Base" title="Siege of Menagh Air Base">Menagh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Sidi_Ali_Ben_Aoun" title="Battle of Sidi Ali Ben Aoun">Sidi Ali Ben Aoun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Sadad" title="Battle of Sadad">Sadad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Qalamoun_(2013%E2%80%932014)" title="Battle of Qalamoun (2013–2014)">Qalamoun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aleppo_offensive_(October%E2%80%93December_2013)" title="Aleppo offensive (October–December 2013)">Aleppo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_al-Yaarubiyah" title="Battle of al-Yaarubiyah">Al-Yaarubiyah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Tell_Hamis_and_Tell_Brak_(December_2013%E2%80%93January_2014)" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Tell Hamis and Tell Brak (December 2013–January 2014)">Tell Hamis and Tell Brak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anbar_campaign_(2013%E2%80%932014)" title="Anbar campaign (2013–2014)">Anbar</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2014</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fall_of_Fallujah" title="Fall of Fallujah">Fallujah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northern_Aleppo_offensive_(February%E2%80%93July_2014)" title="Northern Aleppo offensive (February–July 2014)">N Aleppo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Markada" title="Battle of Markada">Markada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northern_Iraq_offensive_(June_2014)" title="Northern Iraq offensive (June 2014)">N Iraq (Jun)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fall_of_Mosul" title="Fall of Mosul">Mosul</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salahuddin_campaign" title="Salahuddin campaign">Salahuddin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fall_of_Baiji" title="Fall of Baiji">Baiji (Jun)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_Battle_of_Tikrit" title="First Battle of Tikrit">Tikrit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northern_Iraq_offensive_(August_2014)" title="Northern Iraq offensive (August 2014)">N Iraq (Aug)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Koban%C3%AE" title="Siege of Kobanî">Kobanî</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sinjar_massacre" title="Sinjar massacre">Sinjar (Aug)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Derna_campaign_(2014%E2%80%932016)" title="Derna campaign (2014–2016)">Derna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Ramadi_(2014%E2%80%932015)" title="Battle of Ramadi (2014–2015)">Ramadi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deir_ez-Zor_offensive_(December_2014)" title="Deir ez-Zor offensive (December 2014)">Deir ez-Zor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Baiji_(2014%E2%80%932015)" title="Battle of Baiji (2014–2015)">Baiji (14–15)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_2014_Sinjar_offensive" title="December 2014 Sinjar offensive">Sinjar (Dec)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Zumar" title="Battle of Zumar">Zumar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Amirli" title="Siege of Amirli">Amirli</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2015</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fall_of_Nofaliya_(2015)" title="Fall of Nofaliya (2015)">Nofaliya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_West_African_offensive" title="2015 West African offensive">W Africa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_2015_Egyptian_airstrikes_in_Libya" title="February 2015 Egyptian airstrikes in Libya">Egyptian airstrikes in Libya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_Niger_raid" class="mw-redirect" title="2015 Niger raid">Niger raid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eastern_al-Hasakah_offensive" title="Eastern al-Hasakah offensive">E al-Hasakah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Tikrit" title="Second Battle of Tikrit">Tikrit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Sirte_(2015)" title="Battle of Sirte (2015)">Sirte</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hama_and_Homs_offensive_(March%E2%80%93April_2015)" title="Hama and Homs offensive (March–April 2015)">Hama & Homs (Mar–Apr)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Sarrin_(March%E2%80%93April_2015)" title="Battle of Sarrin (March–April 2015)">Sarrin (Mar–Apr)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Yarmouk_Camp_(2015)" title="Battle of Yarmouk Camp (2015)">Yarmouk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qalamoun_offensive_(May%E2%80%93June_2015)" title="Qalamoun offensive (May–June 2015)">Qalamoun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palmyra_offensive_(May_2015)" title="Palmyra offensive (May 2015)">Palmyra (May)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Western_al-Hasakah_offensive" title="Western al-Hasakah offensive">W al-Hasakah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Hasakah_city_offensive" title="Al-Hasakah city offensive">Al-Hasakah city</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tell_Abyad_offensive" title="Tell Abyad offensive">Tell Abyad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Sarrin_(June%E2%80%93July_2015)" title="Battle of Sarrin (June–July 2015)">Sarrin (Jun–Jul)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_al-Hasakah_(2015)" title="Battle of al-Hasakah (2015)">Al-Hasakah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Koban%C3%AE_massacre" title="Kobanî massacre">Kobani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palmyra_offensive_(July%E2%80%93August_2015)" title="Palmyra offensive (July–August 2015)">Palmyra (Jul–Aug)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Ramadi_(2015%E2%80%932016)" title="Battle of Ramadi (2015–2016)">Ramadi (15–16)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_al-Qaryatayn_(2015)" title="Battle of al-Qaryatayn (2015)">Al-Qaryatayn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_al-Hawl_offensive" title="2015 al-Hawl offensive">Al-Hawl</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Homs_offensive_(November%E2%80%93December_2015)" title="Homs offensive (November–December 2015)">Homs (Nov–Dec)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_2015_Sinjar_offensive" title="November 2015 Sinjar offensive">Sinjar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Aleppo_offensive_(2015%E2%80%932016)" title="East Aleppo offensive (2015–2016)">E Aleppo (15–16)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nineveh_Plains_offensive" title="Nineveh Plains offensive">Niveneh Plains</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tishrin_Dam_offensive" title="Tishrin Dam offensive">Tishrin Dam</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2016</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Deir_ez-Zor_offensive_(2016)" title="Deir ez-Zor offensive (2016)">Deir ez-Zor (Jan)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Fallujah_(2016)" title="Siege of Fallujah (2016)">Fallujah (Feb–May)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nangarhar_offensive_(2016)" title="Nangarhar offensive (2016)">Nangarhar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Ben_Guerdane" title="Battle of Ben Guerdane">Ben Guerdane</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ithriyah-Raqqa_offensive_(February%E2%80%93March_2016)" title="Ithriyah-Raqqa offensive (February–March 2016)">Ithriyah-Raqqa (Feb–Mar)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Shaddadi_offensive_(2016)" title="Al-Shaddadi offensive (2016)">Al-Shaddadi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_Khanasir_offensive" title="2016 Khanasir offensive">Khanasir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_al-Qaryatayn_(2016)" title="Battle of al-Qaryatayn (2016)">Al-Qaryatayn (Mar–Apr)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palmyra_offensive_(March_2016)" title="Palmyra offensive (March 2016)">Palmyra (Mar)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northern_Aleppo_offensive_(March%E2%80%93June_2016)" title="Northern Aleppo offensive (March–June 2016)">N Aleppo (Mar–Jun)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Hit_(2016)" title="Battle of Hit (2016)">Hīt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Tipo-Tipo" title="Battle of Tipo-Tipo">Tipo-Tipo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Sirte_(2016)" title="Battle of Sirte (2016)">Sirte</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Ar-Rutbah_(2016)" title="Battle of Ar-Rutbah (2016)">Ar-Rutbah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northern_Raqqa_offensive" title="Northern Raqqa offensive">N Raqqa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Third_Battle_of_Fallujah" title="Third Battle of Fallujah">Fallujah (May–Jun)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manbij_offensive" title="Manbij offensive">Manbij</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ithriyah-Raqqa_offensive_(June_2016)" title="Ithriyah-Raqqa offensive (June 2016)">Ithriyah-Raqqa (Jun)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_Abu_Kamal_offensive" title="2016 Abu Kamal offensive">Abu Kamal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_al-Rai_(August_2016)" title="Battle of al-Rai (August 2016)">al-Rai (Aug)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northern_al-Bab_offensive_(September_2016)" title="Northern al-Bab offensive (September 2016)">N al-Bab (Sep)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Western_al-Bab_offensive_(September_2016)" title="Western al-Bab offensive (September 2016)">W al-Bab (Sep)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_Dabiq_offensive" title="2016 Dabiq offensive">Dabiq</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Western_al-Bab_offensive_(October%E2%80%93November_2016)" title="Western al-Bab offensive (October–November 2016)">W al-Bab (Oct–Nov)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_al-Bab" title="Battle of al-Bab">Al-Bab</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aleppo_offensive_(November%E2%80%93December_2016)" title="Aleppo offensive (November–December 2016)">Aleppo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palmyra_offensive_(December_2016)" title="Palmyra offensive (December 2016)">Palmyra</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2017</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Mosul_(2016%E2%80%932017)" title="Battle of Mosul (2016–2017)">Mosul (16–17)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raqqa_campaign_(2016%E2%80%932017)" title="Raqqa campaign (2016–2017)">Raqqa (16–17)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palmyra_offensive_(2017)" title="Palmyra offensive (2017)">Palmyra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deir_ez-Zor_offensive_(January%E2%80%93February_2017)" title="Deir ez-Zor offensive (January–February 2017)">Deir ez-Zor (Jan–Feb)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Aleppo_offensive_(2017)" title="East Aleppo offensive (2017)">E Aleppo (Jan–Apr)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Homs_offensive_(2017)" title="Eastern Homs offensive (2017)">E Homs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hama_offensive_(March%E2%80%93April_2017)" title="Hama offensive (March–April 2017)">Hama</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_Western_Nineveh_offensive" class="mw-redirect" title="2017 Western Nineveh offensive">W Nineveh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Tabqa" title="Battle of Tabqa">Tabqa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Syrian_Desert_campaign_(December_2016%E2%80%93April_2017)" title="Syrian Desert campaign (December 2016–April 2017)">Syrian Desert (Dec 16–Apr 17)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Syrian_Desert_campaign_(May%E2%80%93July_2017)" title="Syrian Desert campaign (May–July 2017)">Syrian Desert (May–Jul)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maskanah_Plains_offensive" title="Maskanah Plains offensive">Maskanah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Marawi" title="Siege of Marawi">Marawi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Raqqa_(2017)" title="Battle of Raqqa (2017)">Raqqa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_Southern_Raqqa_offensive" title="2017 Southern Raqqa offensive">S Raqqa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Syria_campaign" title="Central Syria campaign">C Syria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Tal_Afar_(2017)" title="Battle of Tal Afar (2017)">Tal Afar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deir_ez-Zor_campaign_(2017%E2%80%932019)" title="Deir ez-Zor campaign (2017–2019)">Deir ez-Zor (17–19)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Hawija" title="Battle of Hawija">Hawija</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Syria_campaign_(September%E2%80%93December_2017)" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern Syria campaign (September–December 2017)">E Syria (Sep–Dec)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northwestern_Syria_campaign_(October_2017%E2%80%93February_2018)" title="Northwestern Syria campaign (October 2017–February 2018)">NW Syria (Oct 17–Feb 18)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_Abu_Kamal_offensive" title="2017 Abu Kamal offensive">Abu Kamal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_Western_Iraq_campaign" title="2017 Western Iraq campaign">W Iraq</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2018</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/As-Suwayda_offensive_(June_2018)" title="As-Suwayda offensive (June 2018)">As-Suwayda (Jun)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_Southern_Syria_offensive" title="2018 Southern Syria offensive">S Syria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/As-Suwayda_offensive_(August%E2%80%93November_2018)" title="As-Suwayda offensive (August–November 2018)">As-Suwayda (Aug–Nov)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2019</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Deir_ez-Zor_campaign_(2017%E2%80%932019)#Battle_of_Hajin" title="Deir ez-Zor campaign (2017–2019)">Hajin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Baghuz_Fawqani" title="Battle of Baghuz Fawqani">Baghuz Fawqani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Death_of_Abu_Bakr_al-Baghdadi" title="Death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi">Barisha raid</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2020</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Chinagodrar" title="Battle of Chinagodrar">Chinagodrar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Danag" title="Battle of Danag">Danag</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moc%C3%ADmboa_da_Praia_offensive" title="Mocímboa da Praia offensive">Mocímboa da Praia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al_Bayda_offensive" title="Al Bayda offensive">Al Bayda</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2021</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Tessit_(2021)" title="Battle of Tessit (2021)">Tessit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Palma" title="Battle of Palma">Palma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Sambisa_Forest_(2021)" title="Battle of Sambisa Forest (2021)">Sambisa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Killing_of_Adnan_Abu_Walid_al-Sahrawi" title="Killing of Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahrawi">Dangarous</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2022</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_al-Hasakah_(2022)" title="Battle of al-Hasakah (2022)">Al-Hasakah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abu_Ibrahim_al-Hashimi_al-Qurashi#Death" title="Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi">Atme raid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_And%C3%A9ramboukane_(2022)" title="Battle of Andéramboukane (2022)">Andéramboukane</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Talataye_(2022)" title="Battle of Talataye (2022)">Talataye</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2023</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Falagountou" title="Battle of Falagountou">Falagountou</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents_linked_to_the_Islamic_State" title="List of terrorist incidents linked to the Islamic State">Attacks</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2014</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jewish_Museum_of_Belgium_shooting" title="Jewish Museum of Belgium shooting">Jewish Museum of Belgium shooting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Camp_Speicher_massacre" title="Camp Speicher massacre">Camp Speicher massacre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu_ramming_attack" title="2014 Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu ramming attack">Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu ramming</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2015</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hypercacher_kosher_supermarket_siege" title="Hypercacher kosher supermarket siege">Hypercacher kosher supermarket siege</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_kidnapping_and_beheading_of_Copts_in_Libya" title="2015 kidnapping and beheading of Copts in Libya">Beheading of Copts in Libya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_Corinthia_Hotel_attack" title="2015 Corinthia Hotel attack">Corinthia Hotel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al_Qubbah_bombings" title="Al Qubbah bombings">Al Qubbah bombings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bardo_National_Museum_attack" title="Bardo National Museum attack">Bardo National Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_2015_Sanaa_mosque_bombings" title="March 2015 Sanaa mosque bombings">Sanaa bombings (Mar)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_Jalalabad_suicide_bombing" title="2015 Jalalabad suicide bombing">Jalalabad bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Curtis_Culwell_Center_attack" title="Curtis Culwell Center attack">Curtis Culwell Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qatif_and_Dammam_mosque_bombings" title="Qatif and Dammam mosque bombings">Qatif & Dammam bombings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/26_June_2015_Islamist_attacks" title="26 June 2015 Islamist attacks">26 June</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Koban%C3%AE_massacre" title="Kobanî massacre">Kobanî massacre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint-Quentin-Fallavier_attack" title="Saint-Quentin-Fallavier attack">Saint-Quentin-Fallavier</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_Kuwait_mosque_bombing" title="2015 Kuwait mosque bombing">Kuwait mosque bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_Sousse_attacks" title="2015 Sousse attacks">Sousse</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_Khan_Bani_Saad_bombing" title="2015 Khan Bani Saad bombing">Khan Bani Saad bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suru%C3%A7_bombing" title="Suruç bombing">Suruç bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_2015_Baghdad_bombing" class="mw-redirect" title="August 2015 Baghdad bombing">Baghdad bombing (Aug)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_2015_Sanaa_mosque_bombing" title="September 2015 Sanaa mosque bombing">Sanaa bombing (Sep)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_Ankara_bombings" title="2015 Ankara bombings">Ankara bombings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_Saihat_shooting" title="2015 Saihat shooting">Saihat shooting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Metrojet_Flight_9268" title="Metrojet Flight 9268">Metrojet Flight 9268</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_Beirut_bombings" title="2015 Beirut bombings">Beirut bombings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_2015_Paris_attacks" title="November 2015 Paris attacks">Paris (Nov)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_Tunis_bombing" title="2015 Tunis bombing">Tunis bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_San_Bernardino_attack" title="2015 San Bernardino attack">San Bernardino attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_Qamishli_bombings" title="2015 Qamishli bombings">Qamishli bombings</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2016</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Zliten_truck_bombing" title="Zliten truck bombing">Zliten truck bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_Hurghada_attack" title="2016 Hurghada attack">Hurghada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_2016_Istanbul_bombing" title="January 2016 Istanbul bombing">Istanbul bombing (Jan)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_Jakarta_attacks" title="2016 Jakarta attacks">Jakarta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_Ramadi_bombing" title="2016 Ramadi bombing">Ramadi bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mahasin_mosque_attack" title="Mahasin mosque attack">Mahasin mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_2016_Sayyidah_Zaynab_attack" class="mw-redirect" title="January 2016 Sayyidah Zaynab attack">Sayyidah Zaynab (Jan)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_Mosul_massacre" title="2016 Mosul massacre">Mosul massacre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_2016_Homs_bombings" title="February 2016 Homs bombings">Homs bombings (Feb)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_2016_Sayyidah_Zaynab_bombings" class="mw-redirect" title="February 2016 Sayyidah Zaynab bombings">Sayyidah Zaynab bombings (Feb)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_2016_Baghdad_bombings" class="mw-redirect" title="February 2016 Baghdad bombings">Baghdad bombings (Feb)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_2016_Istanbul_bombing" title="March 2016 Istanbul bombing">Istanbul bombing (Mar)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_Brussels_bombings" title="2016 Brussels bombings">Brussels bombings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_Aden_car_bombing" title="2016 Aden car bombing">Aden bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iskandariya_suicide_bombing" title="Iskandariya suicide bombing">Iskandariya bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_2016_Baghdad_bombing" class="mw-redirect" title="April 2016 Baghdad bombing">Baghdad bombing (Apr)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_Samawa_bombing" title="2016 Samawa bombing">Samawa bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_2016_Gaziantep_bombing" title="May 2016 Gaziantep bombing">Gaziantep bombing (May)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/11_May_2016_Baghdad_bombings" title="11 May 2016 Baghdad bombings">Baghdad bombings (11 May)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Real_Madrid_fan_club_massacres" title="Real Madrid fan club massacres">Real Madrid fan club massacres</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_Taji_gas_plant_attack" title="2016 Taji gas plant attack">Baghdad gas plant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_2016_Yemen_police_bombings" title="May 2016 Yemen police bombings">Yemen police bombings (15 May)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_2016_Baghdad_bombings" class="mw-redirect" title="May 2016 Baghdad bombings">Baghdad bombings (17 May)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_2016_Jableh_and_Tartous_bombings" class="mw-redirect" title="May 2016 Jableh and Tartous bombings">Jableh & Tartous bombings (May)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/23_May_2016_Yemen_bombings" title="23 May 2016 Yemen bombings">Yemen bombings (23 May)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_Aktobe_shootings" title="2016 Aktobe shootings">Aktobe shootings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pulse_nightclub_shooting" title="Pulse nightclub shooting">Pulse nightclub shooting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_Magnanville_stabbing" title="2016 Magnanville stabbing">Magnanville stabbing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_2016_Mukalla_attacks" title="June 2016 Mukalla attacks">Mukalla (Jun)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_Movida_Bar_grenade_attack" title="2016 Movida Bar grenade attack">Movida Bar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_Atat%C3%BCrk_Airport_attack" title="2016 Atatürk Airport attack">Atatürk Airport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_2016_Dhaka_attack" title="July 2016 Dhaka attack">Dhaka (Jul)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_Karrada_bombing" title="2016 Karrada bombing">Karrada bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muhammad_ibn_Ali_al-Hadi_Mausoleum_attack" title="Muhammad ibn Ali al-Hadi Mausoleum attack">Muhammad ibn Ali al-Hadi Mausoleum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_Nice_truck_attack" title="2016 Nice truck attack">Nice truck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/W%C3%BCrzburg_train_attack" title="Würzburg train attack">Würzburg train</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_2016_Kabul_bombing" title="July 2016 Kabul bombing">Kabul bombing (Jul)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_Ansbach_bombing" title="2016 Ansbach bombing">Ansbach bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_Normandy_church_attack" title="2016 Normandy church attack">Normandy church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_2016_Qamishli_bombings" title="July 2016 Qamishli bombings">Qamishli bombings (Jul)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_stabbing_of_Charleroi_police_officers" title="2016 stabbing of Charleroi police officers">Charleroi stabbing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shchelkovo_Highway_police_station_attack" title="Shchelkovo Highway police station attack">Shchelkovo Highway police station</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_2016_Aden_bombing" title="August 2016 Aden bombing">Aden bombing (Aug)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/5_September_2016_Syria_bombings" title="5 September 2016 Syria bombings">Syria bombings (5 Sep)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/9_September_2016_Baghdad_bombings" title="9 September 2016 Baghdad bombings">Baghdad bombings (9 Sep)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_2016_Baghdad_attacks" title="October 2016 Baghdad attacks">Baghdad bombings (Oct)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_Quetta_police_training_college_attack" title="2016 Quetta police training college attack">Quetta police college</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hamam_al-Alil_massacre" title="Hamam al-Alil massacre">Hamam al-Alil massacre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_Khuzdar_bombing" title="2016 Khuzdar bombing">Khuzdar bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_Samarinda_church_bombing" title="2016 Samarinda church bombing">Samarinda bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_2016_Hillah_suicide_truck_bombing" title="November 2016 Hillah suicide truck bombing">Hillah bombing (Nov)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_2016_Aden_suicide_bombings" title="December 2016 Aden suicide bombings">Aden bombings (Dec)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Botroseya_Church_bombing" title="Botroseya Church bombing">Botroseya bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_Al-Karak_attack" title="2016 Al-Karak attack">Al-Karak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_Berlin_truck_attack" title="2016 Berlin truck attack">Berlin truck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Murders_of_Sefter_Ta%C5%9F_and_Fethi_%C5%9Eahin" title="Murders of Sefter Taş and Fethi Şahin">Murders of Sefter Taş and Fethi Şahin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_2016_Baghdad_bombings" class="mw-redirect" title="December 2016 Baghdad bombings">Baghdad bombings (Dec)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2017</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Istanbul_nightclub_shooting" title="Istanbul nightclub shooting">Istanbul nightclub shooting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_2,_2017_Baghdad_bombings" class="mw-redirect" title="January 2, 2017 Baghdad bombings">Baghdad bombings (2 Jan)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_2017_Azaz_bombing" title="January 2017 Azaz bombing">Azaz bombing (Jan)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sehwan_suicide_bombing" title="Sehwan suicide bombing">Sehwan bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_2017_Kabul_attack" class="mw-redirect" title="March 2017 Kabul attack">Kabul (Mar)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_Westminster_attack" title="2017 Westminster attack">Westminster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_Saint_Petersburg_Metro_bombing" title="2017 Saint Petersburg Metro bombing">St Petersburg Metro bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palm_Sunday_church_bombings" title="Palm Sunday church bombings">Egypt church bombings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_Mastung_suicide_bombing" title="2017 Mastung suicide bombing">Mastung bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manchester_Arena_bombing" title="Manchester Arena bombing">Manchester Arena bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_Jakarta_bombings" title="2017 Jakarta bombings">Jakarta bombings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_Minya_bus_attack" title="2017 Minya bus attack">Minya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Faqma_ice_cream_parlor_bombing" title="Al-Faqma ice cream parlor bombing">Al-Faqma bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_London_Bridge_attack" title="2017 London Bridge attack">London Bridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_Brighton_siege" title="2017 Brighton siege">Brighton siege</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_Tehran_attacks" title="2017 Tehran attacks">Tehran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_2017_Pakistan_attacks" title="June 2017 Pakistan attacks">Pakistan attacks (Jun)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_Hurghada_attack" title="2017 Hurghada attack">Hurghada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_2017_Quetta_suicide_bombing" title="August 2017 Quetta suicide bombing">Quetta bombing (Aug)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_Barcelona_attacks" title="2017 Barcelona attacks">Barcelona</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_2017_Brussels_attack" class="mw-redirect" title="August 2017 Brussels attack">Brussels (Aug)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_Nasiriyah_attacks" title="2017 Nasiriyah attacks">Nasiriyah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/20_October_2017_Afghanistan_attacks" title="20 October 2017 Afghanistan attacks">Afghanistan (20 Oct)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_New_York_City_truck_attack" title="2017 New York City truck attack">New York City truck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_Sinai_mosque_attack" title="2017 Sinai mosque attack">Sinai mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/28_December_2017_Kabul_suicide_bombing" title="28 December 2017 Kabul suicide bombing">Kabul bombing (28 Dec)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Attack_on_Saint_Menas_church" title="Attack on Saint Menas church">Saint Menas church</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2018</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2018_Baghdad_bombings" title="2018 Baghdad bombings">Baghdad bombings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Save_the_Children_Jalalabad_attack" title="Save the Children Jalalabad attack">Save The Children Jalalabad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kizlyar_church_shooting" title="Kizlyar church shooting">Kizlyar church shooting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_2018_Kabul_suicide_bombing" title="March 2018 Kabul suicide bombing">Kabul bombing (Mar)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carcassonne_and_Tr%C3%A8bes_attack" title="Carcassonne and Trèbes attack">Carcasonne & Trèbes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/22_April_2018_Kabul_suicide_bombing" title="22 April 2018 Kabul suicide bombing">Kabul bombing (22 Apr)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/30_April_2018_Kabul_suicide_bombings" title="30 April 2018 Kabul suicide bombings">Kabul bombings (30 Apr)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_attack_on_the_High_National_Elections_Commission_in_Tripoli,_Libya" title="2018 attack on the High National Elections Commission in Tripoli, Libya">Tripoli</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_Mako_Brimob_standoff" title="2018 Mako Brimob standoff">Mako Brimob standoff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_Paris_knife_attack" title="2018 Paris knife attack">Paris knife</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Surabaya_bombings" title="Surabaya bombings">Surabaya bombings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_Li%C3%A8ge_attack" title="2018 Liège attack">Liège</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_2018_Jalalabad_suicide_bombing" title="July 2018 Jalalabad suicide bombing">Jalalabad bombing (Jul)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_Mastung_and_Bannu_bombings" title="2018 Mastung and Bannu bombings">Mastung & Bannu bombings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_Quetta_suicide_bombing" title="2018 Quetta suicide bombing">Quetta bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_As-Suwayda_attacks" title="2018 As-Suwayda attacks">As-Suwayda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_Tajikistan_tourist_attack" title="2018 Tajikistan tourist attack">Tajikistan attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_2018_Kabul_attacks" title="September 2018 Kabul attacks">Kabul (Sep)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ahvaz_military_parade_attack" title="Ahvaz military parade attack">Ahvaz military parade</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_Minya_bus_attack" title="2018 Minya bus attack">Minya bus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_Melbourne_stabbing_attack" title="2018 Melbourne stabbing attack">Melbourne stabbing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Murders_of_Louisa_Vesterager_Jespersen_and_Maren_Ueland" title="Murders of Louisa Vesterager Jespersen and Maren Ueland">Murders of Louisa Vesterager Jespersen and Maren Ueland</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2019</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2019_Jolo_Cathedral_bombings" title="2019 Jolo Cathedral bombings">Jolo Cathedral bombings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_Sri_Lanka_Easter_bombings" title="2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings">Sri Lanka Easter bombings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sainthamaruthu_shootout" title="Sainthamaruthu shootout">Sainthamaruthu shootout</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/17_August_2019_Kabul_bombing" title="17 August 2019 Kabul bombing">Kabul bombing (17 Aug)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2020</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/6_March_2020_Kabul_shooting" title="6 March 2020 Kabul shooting">Kabul shooting (6 Mar)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kabul_gurdwara_attack" title="Kabul gurdwara attack">Kabul gurdwara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Xitaxi_massacre" title="Xitaxi massacre">Xitaxi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_2020_Afghanistan_attacks" title="May 2020 Afghanistan attacks">Afghanistan (May)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jalalabad_prison_attack" class="mw-redirect" title="Jalalabad prison attack">Jalalabad prison</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2020_Jolo_bombings" title="2020 Jolo bombings">Jolo bombings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2020_Kabul_University_attack" title="2020 Kabul University attack">Kabul University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2020_Vienna_attack" title="2020 Vienna attack">Vienna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_2020_Afghanistan_attacks" title="December 2020 Afghanistan attacks">Afghanistan (Dec)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2021</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2021_Machh_attack" title="2021 Machh attack">Machh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_2021_Baghdad_bombings" title="January 2021 Baghdad bombings">January Baghdad bombings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2021_Kabul_school_bombing" title="2021 Kabul school bombing">Kabul school bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2021_Kabul_airport_attack" title="2021 Kabul airport attack">Kabul airport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2021_Kunduz_mosque_bombing" title="2021 Kunduz mosque bombing">Kunduz bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2021_Kandahar_bombing" title="2021 Kandahar bombing">Kandahar bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2021_Uganda_bombings" title="2021 Uganda bombings">Kampala bombings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2021_Kabul_hospital_attack" title="2021 Kabul hospital attack">Kabul hospital</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2022</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2022_Diyala_massacre" title="2022 Diyala massacre">Diyala massacre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022_Peshawar_mosque_attack" title="2022 Peshawar mosque attack">Peshawar mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022_Hadera_shooting" title="2022 Hadera shooting">Hadera shooting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022_Mazar-i-Sharif_mosque_bombing" title="2022 Mazar-i-Sharif mosque bombing">Mazar-i-Sharif mosque bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022_Mazar-i-Sharif_minivan_bombings" title="2022 Mazar-i-Sharif minivan bombings">Mazar-i-Sharif minivan bombings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bourasso_and_Namissiguima_massacres" title="Bourasso and Namissiguima massacres">Bourasso and Namissiguima</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kuje_prison_break" title="Kuje prison break">Kuje prison break</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/5_August_2022_Kabul_bombing" title="5 August 2022 Kabul bombing">5 August Kabul bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_2022_Kabul_mosque_bombing" title="August 2022 Kabul mosque bombing">August Kabul mosque bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bombing_of_the_Russian_embassy_in_Kabul" title="Bombing of the Russian embassy in Kabul">Bombing of the Russian embassy in Kabul</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022_Shah_Cheragh_attack" title="2022 Shah Cheragh attack">Shah Cheragh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022_Kabul_hotel_attack" title="2022 Kabul hotel attack">Kabul hotel</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2023</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2023_Kabul_airport_bombing" title="2023 Kabul airport bombing">Kabul airport bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Foreign_Affairs_of_Afghanistan_bombing" title="Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan bombing">Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2023_Al-Sukhnah_attack" title="2023 Al-Sukhnah attack">Al-Sukhnah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2023_Hama_attack" class="mw-redirect" title="2023 Hama attack">Hama</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2023_Khar_bombing" title="2023 Khar bombing">Khar bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arras_school_stabbing" class="mw-redirect" title="Arras school stabbing">Arras school stabbing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2023_Pul-i-Khumri_bombing" title="2023 Pul-i-Khumri bombing">Pul-i-Khumri bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2023_Brussels_shooting" title="2023 Brussels shooting">Brussels shooting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_2023_Kabul_bombing" title="November 2023 Kabul bombing">Kabul bombing (Nov)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2023_Paris_attack" title="2023 Paris attack">Paris</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mindanao_State_University_bombing" title="Mindanao State University bombing">Mindanao State University bombing</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2024</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kerman_bombings" class="mw-redirect" title="Kerman bombings">Kerman bombings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_Istanbul_church_shooting" title="2024 Istanbul church shooting">Istanbul church shooting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_Balochistan_bombings" title="2024 Balochistan bombings">Balochistan bombings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_Sibi_bombing" title="2024 Sibi bombing">Sibi bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mucojo_attack" class="mw-redirect" title="Mucojo attack">Mucojo attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_Karabulak_clash" title="2024 Karabulak clash">Karabulak clash</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_Kandahar_New_Kabul_Bank_bombing" title="2024 Kandahar New Kabul Bank bombing">Kandahar New Kabul Bank bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_Tillab%C3%A9ri_attack" class="mw-redirect" title="2024 Tillabéri attack">Tillabéri attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crocus_City_Hall_attack" title="Crocus City Hall attack">Crocus City Hall attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_Guzara_Attack" title="2024 Guzara Attack">2024 Guzara Attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_Bamyan_shooting" title="2024 Bamyan shooting">2024 Bamyan shooting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_Beirut_US_embassy_shooting" title="2024 Beirut US embassy shooting">2024 Beirut US embassy shooting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rostov-on-Don_pre-trial_detention_center_hostage_crisis" title="Rostov-on-Don pre-trial detention center hostage crisis">Rostov-on-Don pre-trial detention center hostage crisis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_Dagestan_attacks" title="2024 Dagestan attacks">2024 Dagestan attacks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_attack_on_the_Israeli_embassy_in_Belgrade" title="2024 attack on the Israeli embassy in Belgrade">2024 attack on the Israeli embassy in Belgrade</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_Muscat_mosque_shooting" title="2024 Muscat mosque shooting">2024 Muscat mosque shooting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_Kabul_bus_bombing" title="2024 Kabul bus bombing">2024 Kabul bus bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Surovikino_penal_colony_hostage_crisis" title="Surovikino penal colony hostage crisis">Surovikino penal colony hostage crisis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_Solingen_stabbing" title="2024 Solingen stabbing">2024 Solingen stabbing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_Qala_Bakhtiar_bombing" title="2024 Qala Bakhtiar bombing">2024 Qala Bakhtiar bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_Afghanistan_bus_shooting" title="2024 Afghanistan bus shooting">2024 Afghanistan bus shooting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_Qusar_attack" title="2024 Qusar attack">2024 Qusar attack</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Politics and organization</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Finances_of_the_Islamic_State" title="Finances of the Islamic State">Finances</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ideology_of_the_Islamic_State" title="Ideology of the Islamic State">Ideology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islamic_State_Health_Service" title="Islamic State Health Service">Medicare</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Military_of_the_Islamic_State" title="Military of the Islamic State">Military</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Armoured_warfare_of_the_Islamic_State" title="Armoured warfare of the Islamic State">Armoured warfare</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Human_rights_in_Islamic_State-controlled_territory" title="Human rights in Islamic State-controlled territory">Human rights</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Genocide_of_Christians_by_the_Islamic_State" class="mw-redirect" title="Genocide of Christians by the Islamic State">Genocide of Christians</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Persecution_of_Shias_by_the_Islamic_State" title="Persecution of Shias by the Islamic State">Persecution of Shias</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Genocide_of_Yazidis_by_the_Islamic_State" class="mw-redirect" title="Genocide of Yazidis by the Islamic State">Genocide of Yazidis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iraqi_Turkmen_genocide" title="Iraqi Turkmen genocide">Genocide of Turkmen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Persecution_of_gay_and_bisexual_men_by_the_Islamic_State" title="Persecution of gay 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