ISIS-Khorasan Appears to Be Replacing the Taliban’s Terror in Afghanistan

There have been debates on whether ISIS-Core and its regional affiliates have been defeated globally. Still, their 2022 activities indicate the strong presence of these groups in the world. For example, U.S. Central Command and partner forces conducted 313 military operations targeting ISIS in Syria and Iraq in 2022. In addition, the group’s branches in Mozambique, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, the Philippines, Yemen, and Somalia continued to make attacks in 2022. ISIS-Khorasan (ISIS-K), an ISIS-affiliated organization that operates in Afghanistan and Pakistan, deserves special attention in terms of its highly complex attacks that killed…