{"id":37959,"date":"2021-08-26T12:04:26","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T20:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=37959"},"modified":"2021-09-01T16:18:47","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T00:18:47","slug":"isil-khorasan-suspected-in-deadly-attacks-at-kabul-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/26\/isil-khorasan-suspected-in-deadly-attacks-at-kabul-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"ISIL-Khorasan Suspected in Deadly Attacks at Kabul Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/europe-france-evacuations-kabul-9e457201e5bbe75a4eb1901fedeee7a1\">Scores of Afghans and numerous US servicemembers<\/a> are dead after a series of bombings and shootings around Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul. The attacks come as the American drawdown from Afghanistan nears its long-awaited conclusion. <\/p>\n<p> A <a HREF=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant_%E2%80%93_Khorasan_Province\">relatively new<\/a> faction of ISIL from the vaguely defined Khorasan region in Iran and Afghanistan \u2013 sometimes known as ISIL-K \u2013 is <a HREF=\"https:\/\/www.news18.com\/news\/world\/kabul-airport-blasts-who-are-isis-k-sworn-enemy-of-taliban-that-india-us-suspect-are-behind-attack-4131563.html\">suspected<\/a> to be behind the attack. While ISIL-K has <a HREF=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Operation_Khyber\">worked with the Pakistani Taliban<\/a> in the past, the White House recently <a HREF=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2021\/08\/24\/remarks-by-president-biden-on-the-ongoing-evacuation-efforts-in-afghanistan-and-the-house-vote-on-the-build-back-better-agenda\/\">detailed<\/a> the &quot;sworn enemy&quot; relationship between the Afghan Taliban and ISIL-K in a press briefing specifically warning of the possibility of such an attack.<\/p>\n<p> The attack is quite possibly a ploy to provoke a maintained American troop presence in Afghanistan, a long-term goal of ISIL and other Al-Qaeda affiliates in concert with Osama bin Laden\u2019s <a HREF=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-news\/osamas-prodigal-son-the-dark-twisted-journey-of-omar-bin-laden-199468\/\">strategy<\/a> of keeping the US tied down in the region. <\/p>\n<p> The Pentagon will likely be required to work with the Taliban \u2013 a <a HREF=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Taliban%E2%80%93ISIL_conflict_in_Afghanistan\">not unheard-of arrangement<\/a> \u2013 in order to facilitate the safe passage of remaining American citizens and soldiers out of the country. <\/p>\n<p><i>Jacob D. Witte is an independent writer and graduate student in Fort Wayne, Indiana.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scores of Afghans and numerous US servicemembers are dead after a series of bombings and shootings around Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul. The attacks come as the American drawdown from Afghanistan nears its long-awaited conclusion. 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