Prior to ISIS-K’s official establishment in 2015, a number of Islamic militant jihadist groups were already operating in the region, seeking to overthrow existing governments and implement fundamentalist Islamist rule. Many of these groups had ties to al-Qaeda, which maintained a base of operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan since the late 1980s. When the U.S. overthrew the Taliban regime in Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks, the nation became a new focal point for jihadism across the wider Khorasan region spanning parts of Iran, Central Asia, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.
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