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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 433

Khorasan

A screen capture from an Islamic State propaganda video, depicting soldiers calling on Muslims to surrender their foreign passports and join the terror group. (YouTube)
July 14, 2017, 11:36 pm
Pentagon says leader of Afghan Islamic State branch killed in US raid
Abu Sayed, emir of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria Khorasan Province (ISIS-K), among several members dead in strike on group’s HQ
By AFP
File: An EA-6B Prowler launching from the American aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) supporting strike, surveillance and reconnaissance missions in Syria, September 26, 2014. (AFP Photo/Handout/US Navy)
October 19, 2015, 3:04 am
US confirms Syria airstrike killed al-Qaeda commander
Sanafi al-Nasr, a leading figure in secretive Khorasan group, was planning attacks against America, Pentagon says
By Lolita C. Baldor
Illustrative image of airstrikes on the town of Talbiseh in the Homs province, western Syria, September 30, 2015. (Homs Media Centre via AP)
October 18, 2015, 8:08 pm
US: Airstrike in Syria killed senior al-Qaeda commander
Ashton Carter says death of Sanafi al-Nasr, veteran jihadist and leader of the Khorasan Group, a ‘significant blow’ to terror organization
By AFP
French soldiers patrol next to the Eiffel Tower after a shooting at a French satirical newspaper, in Paris, France, Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2015. (photo credit: AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
January 8, 2015, 2:02 pm
Paris massacre highlights jihadists’ Mideast-Europe traffic
With Turkey at the hub, thousands of young Muslim volunteers head to join Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, and then return home. It’s almost impossible for European intelligence agencies to track them all
By Avi Issacharoff
A pair of US Air Force F-15E Strike Eagles fly over northern Iraq after conducting airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Syria on Sept. 23, 2014. (US Air Force/Senior Airman Matthew Bruch)
November 14, 2014, 3:56 pm
US hits al-Qaeda militants in Syria for third time
American aircraft target secretive Khorasan group; US claims terror organization plotting attacks on the west
By RYAN LUCAS
Illustrative photo of jihadists fighting with the Islamic State. (AP/Raqqa Media Center of the Islamic State group, File)
November 13, 2014, 10:41 pm
Islamic State, al-Qaeda reach accord in Syria
The two jihadi organizations, while not merging, will likely carry out joint attacks on targets in north of country
By Deb Riechmann
In this September 23, 2014 file photo, provided by an anti-Bashar Assad activist group Edlib News Network (ENN), which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Syrian citizens checking a damaged house that they say was targeted by the coalition airstrikes, in the village of Kfar Derian, a base for the al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front, a rival of the Islamic State group, between the northern province of Aleppo and Idlib, Syria. (AP/Edlib News Network ENN, File)
October 10, 2014, 9:04 am
Officials: Strikes on terror cell don’t stop plots
Coalition attacks in Syria ‘effective in setting back’ Khorasan, but are no permanent solution for threats, congressman says
By Ken Dilanian
FILE- In this Sept. 23, 2014 file image provided by the U.S. Navy, the guided-missile cruiser USS Philippine Sea (CG 58) launches a Tomahawk cruise missile as seen from the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush. (photo credit: AP/U.S. Navy, Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Eric Garst, File)
October 9, 2014, 11:33 pm
Khorasan likely still plotting attacks against West
Intelligence officials say initial airstrikes effective, but many key operatives had already scattered
By Ken Dilanian
In this Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014 photo released by the US Air Force, a formation of US Navy F-18E Super Hornets leaves after receiving fuel from a KC-135 Stratotanker over northern Iraq as part of US-led coalition airstrikes on IS targets in Syria. (AP/US Air Force, Staff Sgt. Shawn Nickel)
October 7, 2014, 2:34 am
US said to target French intelligence defector to al-Qaeda
Anonymous sources claim coalition airstrikes in Syria were directed at former agent; defense official denies link
By ToI Staff
Illustrative photo of fighters from the al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front near Damascus, Syria, on September 22, 2014. (AFP/Rami al-Sayed)
October 2, 2014, 6:02 pm
Israelis ponder uniqueness of Khorasan terror threat
Experts say group, which US contends may be as dangerous as Islamic State, is just one of dozens of jihadi offshoots
By Mitch Ginsburg
Lt. Gen. William C. Mayville Jr. speaks on the first US airstrikes in Syria during a briefing at the Pentagon, in Washington, DC, September 23, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Brendan Smialowski)
September 23, 2014, 8:45 pm
Pentagon: Terrorist group was planning ‘major attack’
US says al-Qaeda offshoot targeted in Syria was in ‘final stages’ of executing plan against Western targets
By AFP
US President Barack Obama makes a statement on the first US bombing of the Islamic State in Syria at the White House on September 23, 2014. (photo credit: Jim Watson/AFP)
September 23, 2014, 6:50 pm
Obama: US ‘not alone’ in fighting Islamic State
President praises multi-state coalition after Washington strikes the jihadist group in Syria
By AFP
Illustrative photo of fighters from the al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front near Damascus, Syria, on September 22, 2014. (AFP/Rami al-Sayed)
September 23, 2014, 2:21 pm
US targets Nusra, Khorasan terror groups in Syria
While hitting Islamic State, jets also strike al-Qaeda affiliate al-Nusra Front, as well as Khorasan, said to be plotting terror attack
By AFP and ToI Staff
Rebels affiliated with al-Qaeda sit on a truck full of ammunition in northern Syria, January 11, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Edlib News Network ENN)
September 21, 2014, 12:59 pm
Shadowy group as big a threat as Islamic State, US officials say
Khorasan group of Pakistani and Afghani fighters in Syria, led by a former bin Laden confidant, said to be working with Yemeni bomb-makers to target US aviation
By AP and ToI Staff
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