ISIS-K

[ahy-sis-key]

noun

1. Also called Islamic State Khorasan Province.  ISIS-KP.  ISKP. Islamic State Khorasan: an Afghanistan-based branch of ISIS.

Word History and Origins

Origin of ISIS-K¹

First recorded in 2015–20

Example Sentences

A particularly potent affiliate is Islamic State Khorasan — or ISIS-K — which has mounted increasingly daring attacks in the last year, including an assault on a Moscow concert hall in March that killed more than 140 people, and a twin bombing during a funeral procession in Iran that killed some 100 people.

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ISIS-K was also linked to the August 2021 bombing that killed 13 U.S. service members and about 170 Afghans as the U.S. was withdrawing from Afghanistan.

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Earlier this year, American intelligence tracked ISIS-K threats in Iran and Russia and notified those countries’ governments.

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In Iran, ISIS-K killed 84 people with a bomb; in Moscow, four gunmen claiming ISIS-K affiliation slaughtered more than 140 people at a concert hall.

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The Taliban is monitoring some groups and fighting others — including ISIS-K — which is an improvement, from the U.S. perspective, on its behavior before 9/11.

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