The terror threat emanating from Afghanistan has continued to grow in the nearly two years since U.S. troops departed in August 2021.
Afghanistan has become a coordination site for the Islamic State as the group plans for attacks across Europe and Asia while conducting “aspirational plotting” against the United States, according to the Washington Post, which reported on a newly discovered leaked document from the trove that shook the U.S. government in recent weeks.
While the specifics of ISIS plots had not been released, Gen. Michael “Erik” Kurilla, the commander of U.S. Central Command, warned in recent weeks that Islamic State militants in Afghanistan — known as Islamic State Khorasan, or ISIS-K — will have the ability to launch external attacks in less than six months.
Within the final weeks of the U.S. military's presence in Afghanistan, the Taliban launched a military offensive, quickly toppling the Afghan army and the U.S.-backed Ghani government. The military then launched a two weekslong noncombatant emergency operation that resulted in the evacuation of more than 120,000 Afghans who wanted to flee the country, though they left thousands of allies behind.
Since the withdrawal, the U.S. military has maintained its counterterrorism efforts in Afghanistan from afar. It can launch strikes against specific targets from outside the country, though it's extremely difficult to obtain the intelligence needed to conduct such a mission.
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