Who Is ISIS-K? Anti-Taliban, Anti-U.S. Terror Group Claims Responsibility for Kabul Suicide Bombs
by webdev@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!) from Democracy Now! on (#5NVGB)
We speak with Haroun Rahimi, assistant professor of law at the American University of Afghanistan, about the Islamic State affiliate that claimed responsibility for this week's devastating suicide bombings at Kabul airport, which killed more than 110 people, including 13 U.S. troops. Islamic State Khorasan, or ISIS-K, is a puritanical group that is critical of all other sects of Islam," says Rahimi. Whatever Muslim that thinks differently than them is a major target for them." He says the group's name refers to a region of the former Islamic empire and is an attempt to reestablish some past lost glory" in a bid to attract disaffected Muslim youth.