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1 online resource (VII, 84 pages) : color illustrations, color maps |
| Summary |
Afghanistan and Pakistan became the home base for one of the Islamic State's most dangerous and lethal affiliates--the Islamic State Khorasan (ISK)--approximately five years ago. In the half-decade since ISK's official formation in January 2015, the group has been consistently subjected to a multitude of state-led operations in both Afghanistan and Pakistan. Despite prevalent operations against ISK, the lack of a systematic review of targeting tactics against the group means that specific outcomes of these operations and their efficacy remain unclear. A few questions remain unanswered: what is the nature and level of manpower losses incurred by ISK in various campaigns against the group? How have operations altered the level of the ISK threat, and what do they reveal about ISK's militant base? How have these operations a ected ISK's operational capacity? This report draws on open-source materials to provide an overview of the diversity and magnitude of state-led efforts against ISK in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Chapter 1 of the report examines efforts against ISK in Afghanistan, while Chapter 2 focuses on Pakistan. Each of these chapters examines the unique nature of operations in both countries, the geographical hotspots and years of peaks in ISK's losses, their outcomes in terms of leadership decapitation, and finally an overview of the effect of operations on ISK's attacks, lethality (killed and wounded), and geographical expansion. Chapter 3 provides a discussion of these findings and their security implications |
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Title from content provider |
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"March 2020"--Title page |
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Includes bibliographical references |
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"We are deeply grateful to the Carnegie Corporation of New York, whose generous support made this report possible." |
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Islamic State Khorasan Province (Organization)
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Islamic State Khorasan Province (Organization) fast (OCoLC)fst02048557 |
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Terrorism -- Afghanistan -- Prevention -- Evaluation
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Terrorism -- Pakistan -- Prevention -- Evaluation
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Afghanistan.
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Pakistan.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Mines, Andrew, author
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Combating Terrorism Center (U.S.), publisher.
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