The office’s area of responsibility (AOR) covers Khorasan Razavi, North Khorasan and South Khorasan (altogether sharing a 750 km border with Afghanistan), and Golestan provinces. Under the SOM AOR, ...

After suffering a string of major defeats in 2019 and 2020, the Islamic State in Khorasan (IS-K) was well past its peak in August 2021 when the Taliban seized control ...