The Islamic State Khorasan is growing 'unabated' in Afghanistan, where the U.S. military has 'almost no ability to strike,' retired Gen. Frank McKenzie said.
has “almost no ability to strike,” according to retired Gen. Frank McKenzie, the former leader of U.S. Central Command., which is a regional branch of ISIS, to the U.S. homeland “began to grow as soon as left Afghanistan” at the end of August 2021, he said during a Sunday interview on ABC’sMcKenzie’s successor, Gen. Michael Kurilla, told lawmakers on the Senate Armed Services Committee in early March that ISIS-K “retains the capability and will to attack U.S.
“I think we might be in a different place now. I think we might actually be safer than we are,” McKenzie said, adding, “On the other hand, in Afghanistan, we have almost no ability to see into that country and almost no ability to strike into that country. And so, ISIS there is able to grow unabated. There’s no pressure on them.”
The terrorist group has carried out major attacks outside of Afghanistan in 2024. The first was a bombing in Iran near the burial site of slain military commander Qassem Soleimani. Last month, supposed ISIS-K gunmen killed about 140 people in a Russian mass shooting at a concert hall. “The problem that ISIS-K has and all these organizations have is when they want to conduct an attack abroad, they have to communicate. And that communication is often something that we have the opportunity to listen to, to gain knowledge of, and that can be reasonably precise,” McKenzie said. “I think there was probably good opportunity for the Russians to have averted this attack had they actually listened to the material that was presented to them.
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