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Who are ISIS-K?
Brut America
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3/25/2025
They think the Taliban are too liberal, and just claimed another deadly terror attack in northern Afghanistan.
This is ISIS-K.
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they're more violent, they're more bloody, they have fewer connections with wider Afghan society.
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You could say that they cater to Afghans who think the Taliban are too liberal.
00:31
It's the same organization that was involved in taking large amounts of territory,
00:37
beheading Americans and other foreigners in Iraq and Syria.
01:01
ISIS had sent representatives to both Pakistan and Afghanistan.
01:05
They were essentially able to co-opt some disaffected Pakistan Taliban
01:10
and a few Afghan Taliban to join their cause.
01:30
ISIS-K has carried out hundreds of attacks since its founding in Afghanistan
01:46
and dozens of attacks just this year,
01:48
a lot of them targeting Afghan parliamentary elections,
01:51
and they've actively sought to undermine democratic processes.
01:55
They've brutally targeted Shia groups whom they don't consider Muslims.
02:00
ISIS-K is a sworn enemy of the Taliban,
02:11
and they have a history of fighting one another.
02:14
Some ISIS fighters are married to Taliban fighters or families and vice versa.
02:18
So it is a much more murkier nexus than perhaps looking at it from a black and white perspective.
02:24
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead.
02:45
He was the founder and leader of ISIS.
02:48
We obliterated his caliphate 100%.
02:55
It's been able to draw those recruits because it offers this more radical vision of global jihad,
03:01
calling the Taliban moderate and accusing it of compromising with the West.
03:25
Every day we have troops on the ground.
03:28
These troops, innocent civilians at the airport,
03:31
face the risk of attack from ISIS-K from a distance.
03:45
It was clearly calculated to kill and maim as many people as possible,
03:49
civilians, children, women, fathers, mothers,
03:52
as well as Taliban and foreign forces protecting the airport.
03:56
ISIS was poised to launch attacks specifically because two of its enemies are out of the picture.
04:02
That is the Afghan security forces and, of course, the U.S. troops.
04:07
It ends as it began with civilians bearing the brunt of it, as always.
04:22
To ISIS-K, we are not done with you yet.
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