On Monday, the United States offered a reward of $ 10 million to anyone who provides any information that “identifies or locates” the presence of the ISIS leader.Khorasan Province Praise God Ghafari.
This reward, which was promised by the US State Department, also means every person who provides information that helps in “arresting or convicting” the perpetrators of the “terrorist attack that was carried out on August 26, 2021 at Kabul Airport” and claimed by ISIS-Khorasan Province, which resulted in about a hundred dead, including 13 soldiers. American.
And last November, the US State Department designated Sanaullah Ghafari, also known as Shihab al-Muhajir, the current Emir of ISIS in Khorasan, who was appointed to lead the organization in Afghanistan in June 2020.
She indicated that Ghafari is responsible for approving all ISIS operations throughout Afghanistan, and for securing the necessary funding to conduct the operations.
She noted that these measures are part of “its tireless efforts to ensure that Afghanistan never again becomes a platform for international terrorism.”
Members of ISIS Khorasan in Afghanistan (Image taken from a previous video)
What is the “Khorasan Province” of ISIS branch in Afghanistan?
“ISIS-Khorasan Province” was named after an old name that was given to the region, and it first appeared in eastern Afghanistan in late 2014, and quickly became famous thanks to its horrific operations.
Some experts on extremist movements in the region say that “ISIS-Khorasan Province” was established by extremist elements of the “Pakistan Taliban” who fled to Afghanistan when the Pakistani security forces launched a campaign against them.
From the beginning, the extremist organization, commonly known as ISIS, engaged in confrontations with the Taliban movement in Afghanistan to control key areas on the border with Pakistan linked to drug and other goods smuggling.
At the same time, the group also carried out a series of suicide bombings in Kabul and other cities against the government and foreign military targets, apparently in an effort to cement its image as a more violent and extremist movement.
His attacks ranged from gruesome executions of village dignitaries, killings of Red Cross employees, to suicide attacks among crowds, including a series of bloody suicide bombings against targets linked to the Hazara minority.
Initially limited to a limited number of areas on the border with Pakistan, the group established a second major front in the northern provinces, including Jawzjan and Faryab. The West Point Counterterrorism Center said ISIS-K includes Pakistanis from other extremist groups, Uzbek extremists, as well as Afghans.