Nicolas Stockhammer & Colin P. Clarke (Director of Policy and Research at The Soufan Group) analysieren rezente Terror-Plots des derzeit dominanten IS-Ablegers IS Khorasan Provinz (ISKP) in Europa bzw. im nahen Umfeld und leiten Lektionen für die Terrorismusbekämpfung ab.
10.08.2025, LAWFARE
March 2024 marked the five-year anniversary of the collapse of the Islamic State’s physical caliphate. Since then, its core organization in Iraq and Syria has been mostly on the decline, but the global network of affiliates and branches that the Islamic State established is alive and well. Some franchises have garnered a far more prominent role, and the Afghanistan-based Islamic State in Khorasan Province, or IS-K, has assumed the mantle of the most operationally active and capable of itsprovinces. IS-K cells and operatives have carried out successful attacks overseas, and still other plots have been thwarted—most recently, a planned attack targeting a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna. This record provides valuable lessons for countering the group, providing information about its tactics, techniques, and procedures for target selection, idiosyncratic plotting strategies, and command-and-control related to attack planning. Several thwarted plots in Europe since 2022 entailed joint, cross-border planning and logistics by alleged IS-K supporters (many of them Tajiks or Turkmens), suggesting a transnational network component extending the group’s external operations capabilities. These recent plots also demonstrate how the organization is changing, and counterterrorism officials should take note of IS-K’s increasing recruitment of young teenagers and new uses of social media.
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