{"id":24860,"date":"2024-03-23T04:50:28","date_gmt":"2024-03-23T08:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/moscow-concert-hall-shooting-russia-searches-for-assailants-after-attack-kills-more-than-90\/23\/03\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-03-23T04:50:28","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T08:50:28","slug":"moscow-concert-hall-shooting-russia-searches-for-assailants-after-attack-kills-more-than-90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/moscow-concert-hall-shooting-russia-searches-for-assailants-after-attack-kills-more-than-90\/23\/03\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Moscow Concert Hall Shooting: Russia Searches for Assailants After Attack Kills More Than 90"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"live-blog-post\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2024\/03\/23\/world\/moscow-shooting#isis-k-moscow-attack\" data-source-id=\"100000009377328\">\n<div class=\"live-blog-meta css-1g3itdy\">\n<div class=\"css-yf9s2t\" data-testid=\"live-blog-byline\"><a class=\"css-13xl2ke\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/eric-schmitt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"css-1ppjtba\"><span class=\"css-xtl8uk\"><time aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"css-3rgdz2\" datetime=\"2024-03-23T00:08:15.000Z\"><\/p>\n<p><span data-time=\"abs\" class=\"css-1656jku\">March 22, 2024, 8:08 p.m. ET<\/span><span data-time=\"rel\" class=\"css-xwx5dt\"\/><\/p>\n<p><\/time><span class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">March 22, 2024, 8:08 p.m. ET<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><button aria-label=\"Copy a shareable link to your clipboard\" class=\"css-19moa8e\" type=\"button\" id=\"share-link-https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/03\/22\/us\/politics\/isis-k-moscow-attack.html\" data-testid=\"copy-link\"><svg class=\"css-1wydbmw\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\"><path d=\"M10.59,13.41C11,13.8 11,14.44 10.59,14.83C10.2,15.22 9.56,15.22 9.17,14.83C7.22,12.88 7.22,9.71 9.17,7.76V7.76L12.71,4.22C14.66,2.27 17.83,2.27 19.78,4.22C21.73,6.17 21.73,9.34 19.78,11.29L18.29,12.78C18.3,11.96 18.17,11.14 17.89,10.36L18.36,9.88C19.54,8.71 19.54,6.81 18.36,5.64C17.19,4.46 15.29,4.46 14.12,5.64L10.59,9.17C9.41,10.34 9.41,12.24 10.59,13.41M13.41,9.17C13.8,8.78 14.44,8.78 14.83,9.17C16.78,11.12 16.78,14.29 14.83,16.24V16.24L11.29,19.78C9.34,21.73 6.17,21.73 4.22,19.78C2.27,17.83 2.27,14.66 4.22,12.71L5.71,11.22C5.7,12.04 5.83,12.86 6.11,13.65L5.64,14.12C4.46,15.29 4.46,17.19 5.64,18.36C6.81,19.54 8.71,19.54 9.88,18.36L13.41,14.83C14.59,13.66 14.59,11.76 13.41,10.59C13,10.2 13,9.56 13.41,9.17Z\"\/><\/svg><\/button><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"imageblock-wrapper\">\n<figure class=\"img-sz-medium css-d754w4 e1g7ppur0\" aria-label=\"media\" role=\"group\"><figcaption data-testid=\"photoviewer-children-caption\" class=\"css-gbc9ki ewdxa0s0\"><span class=\"css-jevhma e13ogyst0\">A Taliban fighter stands guard at the site of the 2021 suicide bombing at the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, that killed scores of people including 13 U.S. troops. ISIS-K was responsible for that blast.<\/span><span class=\"css-1u46b97 e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">Wakil Kohsar\/Agence France-Presse \u2014 Getty Images<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">The group that claimed credit for the deadly terrorist attack in Moscow on Friday is the Islamic State affiliate in Afghanistan called Islamic State Khorasan Province, or ISIS-K.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">ISIS-K was founded in 2015 by disaffected members of the Pakistani Taliban, who then embraced a more violent version of Islam. The group saw its ranks cut roughly in half, to about 1,500 to 2,000 fighters, by 2021 from a combination of American airstrikes and Afghan commando raids that killed many of its leaders.<\/p>\n<div class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">The group got a dramatic second wind soon after the Taliban toppled the Afghan government that year. During the U.S. military withdrawal from the country, ISIS-K carried out a suicide bombing at the international airport in Kabul in August 2021 that killed 13 U.S. troops and as many as 170 civilians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">The attack raised ISIS-K\u2019s international profile, positioning it as a major threat to the Taliban\u2019s ability to govern.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Since then, the Taliban have been fighting pitched battles against ISIS-K in Afghanistan. So far, the Taliban\u2019s security services have prevented the group from seizing territory or recruiting large numbers of former Taliban fighters bored in peacetime \u2014 among the worst-case scenarios laid out after Afghanistan\u2019s Western-backed government collapsed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">President Biden and his top commanders have said the United States would carry out \u201cover-the-horizon\u201d strikes from a base in the Persian Gulf against ISIS and Qaeda insurgents who threaten the United States and its interests overseas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Indeed, Gen. Michael E. Kurilla, the head of the military\u2019s Central Command, told a House committee on Thursday that ISIS-K \u201cretains the capability and the will to attack U.S. and Western interests abroad in as little as six months with little to no warning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">ISIS is clearly seeking to project its external operations well beyond its home turf. Counterterrorism officials in Europe say that in recent months they have snuffed out several nascent ISIS-K plots to attack targets there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">In a post on its official Telegram account in January, ISIS-K said it was behind <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/01\/04\/world\/middleeast\/us-isis-iran-general-suleimani.html\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">a bombing attack<\/a> that killed 84 people in Kerman, Iran, during a memorial procession for <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/01\/02\/world\/middleeast\/qassem-soleimani-iraq-iran-attack.html\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani<\/a>, a revered Iranian commander who was killed in an American drone strike in 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">ISIS-K, which has repeatedly threatened Iran over what it says is its polytheism and apostasy, has claimed responsibility for several previous attacks there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">And now the group has claimed responsibility for the attack in Moscow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cISIS-K has been fixated on Russia for the past two years\u201d and frequently criticizes President Vladimir V. Putin in its propaganda, said Colin P. Clarke, a counterterrorism analyst at the Soufan Group, a security consulting firm based in New York. \u201cISIS-K accuses the Kremlin of having Muslim blood in its hands, referencing Moscow\u2019s interventions in Afghanistan, Chechnya and Syria.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><button class=\"css-182hr0m\" data-testid=\"Show-More\" type=\"button\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Show more<\/button><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2024\/03\/23\/world\/moscow-shooting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 22, 2024, 8:08 p.m. ET March 22, 2024, 8:08 p.m. ET A Taliban fighter stands guard at the site of the<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/moscow-concert-hall-shooting-russia-searches-for-assailants-after-attack-kills-more-than-90\/23\/03\/2024\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24860"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}