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The Center for Strategic and International Studies counted almost 100 attacks by the group in Afghanistan and Pakistan by 2018, and hundreds of clashes with U.S., Afghan or Pakistani forces. military estimated that it had killed 75% of the Islamic State affiliate's fighters, including some of its top leaders. controlled the area where the attacks occurred.īiden turned the focus back to the Taliban on Thursday, saying, "It is in the interest of the Taliban that ISIS-K does not metastasize." How big of a threat is ISIS-K in Afghanistan?Īs of 2017, the U.S. The Taliban condemned the blasts outside the airport Thursday and said the U.S. IS accused the Taliban of drawing its legitimacy from a narrow ethnic and nationalistic base, rather than a universal Islamic creed," the center said.Īs The Associated Press has reported, as the Taliban sought to negotiate with the United States in recent years, many of those opposed to talks switched over to the more extremist Islamic State. "The hostility between the two groups arose both from ideological differences and competition for resources. Their differences are also ideological, according to the Stanford center. Many Taliban militants defected to join the Islamic State affiliate, and the two groups fight for resources and territory. "Their goal really is an Islamic emirate, and they are a competitor of both al-Qaida and the Taliban," said Jones of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Since its founding, the Islamic State affiliate has been at odds with the Taliban, which now control Afghanistan. The two are actually enemies, as Biden noted in his televised address Thursday. How is the Islamic State group tied to the Taliban? Baghdadi died in 2019 after he set off an explosive vest during a raid by U.S. The regional affiliate governed with a strict interpretation of Islamic law and used violent enforcement tactics, such as carrying out public executions, killing tribal elders and closing schools, according to the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University.

(While some research reports put ISIS-K's founding date in 2015, others say it emerged in 2014.) In a 2015 video, the group's leader at the time, Hafiz Saeed Khan, and other top commanders pledged their allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, then the Islamic State's leader, and declared themselves administrators of a new ISIS territory in Afghanistan. They were essentially able to co-opt some disaffected Pakistani Taliban and a few Afghan Taliban to join their cause," Seth Jones, an Afghanistan specialist at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said on NPR's All Things Considered.

"ISIS had sent representatives to both Pakistan and Afghanistan.