How have state-led targeting ops altered the Islamic State Khorasan threat & its operational trajectory in AFG & PAK? What has been the extent of #ISK's manpower losses, incl. leadership losses in these efforts? Find out in my new report w/@mines_andrew
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As this report demonstrates, intense targeting of ISK in AfPak resulted in substantial losses; b/w 2015 and 2018, ISK’s losses amounted to the killing, capture, or surrender of over 10,000 ISK-linked individuals & over 500 militants in leadership roles, predominantly in AFG.
A parallel examination of the group’s losses & operational activity indicates that while state-led operations have curtailed ISK’s overall number of attacks & its geo. expansion, ISK retains its ability to conduct lethal attacks, as indicated by attacks in Kabul in 2/20 & 3/20.
