August 27, 2021
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/2 ... p-aka-isil
Introduction:
(Al Jazeera) The Islamic State in Khorasan Province, ISKP (ISIS-K), has claimed responsibility for the deadly attacks outside Kabul airport that killed at least 72 Afghans and 13 US soldiers and left dozens injured.
ISKP said its suicide bombers singled out “translators and collaborators with the American army” in the attacks on Thursday evening.
Also among the dead were 28 Taliban members, according to the group that is now ruling Afghanistan.
ISKP is known as an offshoot of the ISIL (ISIS) armed group that claimed to be seeking to establish an Islamic “caliphate” in Iraq and Syria.
Khorasan refers to a historical region under an ancient caliphate that once included parts of Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and Turkmenistan.