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"Caliphate In India" ISIS-K set target, Intel Sources

The Indian intelligence agencies have warned that ‘Caliphate in India’ is one of the goals of the ISIS-K, the terror group which claimed responsibility for the Kabul airport blast.

Trying to create a caliphate based on other laces. how does this group compare in terms of its name and its tactics —— other places? timer;r compare in terms of its name and its tactics -- other places?— tactics -- other places? they are very similar- _ tactics -- other places? they are very similar. we _ tactics -- other places? they are very similar. we see _ tactics -- other places? they are very similar. we see the - tactics -- other places? they are very similar. we see the group i ve...

Come. as the world saw all too clearly on thursday. a brutal attack on an already battered country. and a threat that is not going away as u.s. forces complete their withdrawal. he could not comment on whether the group was interested in pursuing transnational attacks. but he did say that he hopes with the withdrawal of u.s. forces that potentially they might be able to establish a caliphate like a being able to launch international attacks but this bloody attack on the airport certainly raises ...

Joining us now is michael weiss, senior editor for new alliance magazine, the co-author of "isis: inside the army of terror." michael, thank you very much for being here. for the audience who doesnt know, what is isis-k and what is its relationship with the taliban? >> so isis-k was formed in 2014. many of its top ranking members were actually disaffected members of both the afghan taliban and the pakistani taliban. these are guys who think that the taliban who now rules afghanistan was too cudd...

Senate candidate sean parnell, author of outlaw. your reaction to the killing of this isis k planner? >> this is a good start but it would be naïve to think it is going to stop more attacks from isis. we have been briefed about the growing threat of isis k and afghanistan. we knew they were there, building up in kabul after the trump administration pushed the caliphate out of syria and iraq, we knew they were there and waiting for a moment like this, for the right time to strike during the chao...

Trying to reconstitute the caliphate destroyed in iraq, and the boasting rights over who will wind up being successor when we leave whether it be isis in khorason or another isis franchise remains to be seen, but the fact is that the taliban has always enabled many of the terrorist organizations, whether it be al qaeda, isis or some of the offshoots of the taliban, more extremist elements that have been harbored by the pakistanis to operate inside afghanistan. so, unfortunately, we are probably ...

Community is saying this, the taliban equals al-quaida. al-quaida is going to come roaring back. they are going to attack the west again. that is absolutely going to happen. we need to have somebody to work with when our future american soldiers have to go back again. the same crew that is around biden was around obama that yanked out of iraq too soon that led to the caliphate and launched attacks around the world. we had bases to go back to. in afghanistan, we have nothing. biden gave all of ou...

For the livelihoods of 5,000 americans at the air field. yet they have to decide how they manage or exist alongside isis-k. what does that relationship look like going forward? >> its a complicated relationship. a at the end of the day, they have competing visions for the region. >> break that down for me. is that because you believe the taliban is internally focused and isis-k is externally focused? >> isis-k wants to build their new caliphate. again, the k stands for korizan. its a region. its...

Taliban. >> so isis k was formed in 2014. many of its top ranking members were actually disaffected members of both the afghan taliban and also the pakistani taliban. these are guys who think that the core taliban that now rules afghanistan which to cuddly for their liking. the distinction here is that the taliban is seeking and has always been seeking to establish an emirates, they want to control the nation-state of afghanistan. isiss mission is more messy and, deeply ideological, in fact. the...