This week, Emma Collet, journalist in the World department of L’Express, explains to us what the Islamic State group in Khorassan, responsible for the March 22 attack in Moscow, is.
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Mathias Penguilly: The Islamic State in Khorasan, also called EI-K. It was this group that claimed responsibility for the March 22 attack in Moscow, which left nearly 150 dead. And to understand everything about this terrorist organization, I welcome Emma Collet, journalist in the World department of L’Express. If I called on you, it’s because you are a specialist in Central Asia. The Islamic State, we all know this name, but what is IS Khorassan?
Emma Collet: It is a branch of the Islamic State founded in 2015. It takes its name from an ancient region of Central Asia, its name from the Middle Ages. I brought a map to help you locate it. It was found here, over most of Afghanistan, northeastern Iran, part of Pakistan, and southern Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan. And in fact this terrorist group aims to recreate this Khorasan caliphate.
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