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The Islamic State – Khorasan Province (ISIS–K) is a regional branch of the Islamic State terrorist group active in South-Central Asia, primarily Afghanistan. ISIS–K, like its sister branches in other regions, seeks to destabilize and overthrow existing governments of the historic Khorasan region to establish an Islamic caliphate under its strict, fundamentalist Islamist rule.
Greater Khorasan [2] (Middle Persian: 𐬒𐬊𐬭𐬀𐬯𐬀𐬥, romanized: Xwarāsān; Persian: خراسان, [xoɾɒːˈsɒːn] ⓘ) is a historical eastern region in the Iranian Plateau in West and Central Asia that encompasses western and northern Afghanistan, northeastern Iran, the eastern halves of Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, western Tajikistan, and portions of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan.
On the night of April 29, 2024 at 9 PM, an attacker stormed into the Imam Zaman mosque and opened fired on worshippers inside. [5] [6] The attacker sprayed bullets randomly at worshippers, killing six, including a 3-year-old child and the Imam who was leading the prayers, and injuring one.
The name Khorāsān (lit. "sunrise"; "east"; or "land of the rising sun") was originally given to the eastern province of Persia during the Sassanian period. [2] The old Iranian province of Khorasan roughly formed the western half of the historical Greater Khorasan, [7] a region which included parts that are today in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
Ideology: Islamic Statism: Part of Islamic State [3] Allies: Subgroups. Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (since 2015); Jundallah (2014–2017); Groups. Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (claimed by Tajik government; denied)
Voice of Khorasan (VoK) is a propaganda magazine published by ISKP. [1] It releases propaganda with radical jihadist ideas rely on the literalist interpretation of religious texts from the Holy Quran, [2] [3] including threatens to China and criticism to the abuse of Uyghurs Muslims in Xinjiang, its relationship with the Taliban and the Beijing's imperial ambitions. [4]
The Khorasan group, sometimes known simply as Khorasan, was an alleged group of senior al-Qaeda members operating in Syria. [15] The group was reported to consist of a small number of fighters who are all on terrorist watchlists, and coordinated with al-Nusra Front, al-Qaeda's official affiliate in Syria.
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