Containment: Obama style.

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[/FONT]The Taliban's leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour (inset) was reportedly shot dead this week, prompting claims that ISIS is attempting to destroy its rival in Afghanistan from the top down. The formerly-united Taliban has been torn apart by a bitter internal turmoil that has seen a splinter cell break away and declare loyalty to ISIS, which is steadily carving a trail of bloody destruction through the Taliban's Afghanistan territory. Shocking images (pictured top and bottom) have emerged from an ISIS training camp hidden in the Afghan mountains, where soldiers learn discipline and how to fight. ISIS is conducting a brutal expansion into Afghanistan, with as many as 1,600 fighters now based there.

 

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[h=1]ISIS moves in on Afghanistan: Chilling pictures show jihadis have set up terror training camps as it's claimed they have KILLED the Taliban's leader and seized control of large parts of the war-torn nation[/h]

• Taliban has been divided by a bitter turmoil, leading to ISIS-led splinter cell
• ISIS is targeting Taliban's territory in Afghanistan with a campaign of terror
• Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour is reported to have been shot dead
• His death could be an ISIS attempt to destroy Taliban from the top down

Reports emerged this week that the Taliban leader was killed in a dramatic internal shoot-out after a meeting of commanders of the now divided movement turned sour.
The formerly united group has been severed by a bitter internal turmoil that has seen a splinter cell break away and declare loyalty to ISIS, which is steadily carving a trail of bloody destruction through the Taliban’s Afghanistan territory.
It is believed that members of the ISIS-led breakaway cell could be responsible for the as yet unconfirmed death of the Taliban’s elected leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour.
His death, if proven, exposes the strife among the Taliban’s top ranks as the group seems to be crumbling under ISIS’ growing strength in Afghanistan.

 

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'Killed': Reports have emerged this week that Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour has been shot dead at a meeting of commanders of the now divided insurgent group

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Brutal: ISIS is pushing to expand its so-called caliphate into Afghanistan, and is gradually destroying the now divided Taliban's control. ISIS fighters have captured vast swathes of the country since last autumn

ISIS would have good reason to want to take out the head of the Taliban group, weakening the group as it moves in on its Afghanistan territory.
ISIS’s regional affiliate, Wilayat Khurasan, has entrenched itself in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan and launched a violent campaign against local Afghans to crush any opposition.
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Its fighters have defeated the local Taliban and have begun recruiting new members from 25 of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces.
A series of shocking photographs have emerged from inside the ISIS training camps, hidden deep in the forests of the mountainous region.
Men wearing yellow balaclavas and clutching AK-47s sit in regimented rows in front of ISIS flags, while other images show the fighters learning how to use the weapons.
Although officials initially dismissed the threat that ISIS poses to the country, they have now been forced to sit up and take notice as its growth and wealth expands at an alarming rate.

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Learning: ISIS fighters in a training camp in Afghanistan, into which the so-called caliphate is expanding at an alarming rate

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Ranks: ISIS fighters are pictured learning how to shoot guns, while flanked with fellow fighters. It is believed that the terror group has up to 1,600 fighters in Afghanistan

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Armed: Terrorists fighters learn how to use heavy weapons in the training camp. Locals have reported gruesome tales of unmerciless violence, with beheadings and torture instilling fear into Afghans’ hearts

‘ISIL [ISIS] in Afghanistan are the flag of convenience for disaffected Taliban, Pakistani Taliban, and an assortment of Chechen and Uzbek fighters,’ a senior diplomat in Kabul told The Times.
‘They are not an immediate international threat in the way they are in the Middle East but in three to five years they could be.
‘Thought ideologically different from the Taliban, they have the ability to morph into something more dangerous.’
He added: ‘ISIL here has money, more money than that Taliban for reasons we do not quite understand.’
The group’s campaign of terror reflects with alarming similarities its expansion in other countries.
Locals have reported gruesome tales of unmerciless violence, with beheadings and torture instilling fear into Afghans' hearts.

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Line-up: In just a matter of months ISIS fighters had overthrown the Taliban across regions of Afghanistan

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Movement: A UN report released in September detailed ISIS’s expansive recruitment network in Afghanistan, via its local faction Wilayat Khurasan

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Military: Images from the training camp show fighters learning how to use weapons and prepare for combat

A propaganda video released by Wilayat Khurasan shows 10 local men from the Shinwari tribe in Kot district, blindfolded and forced to kneel on a chain of explosives before being blown to pieces.
The graphic video, filmed from multiple angles, shows lingering images of the body parts remaining.
ISIS’s subtle invasion of Afghanistan began last autumn, although it took weeks for locals to realise who the foreigners were that were settling in their midst.
Before late July, the terror group had forced Taliban fighters out of the region and emerged from the mountain valleys of Peha and Mamond, attacking police and army units as they went.
At first, Wilayat Khurasan was seen more as a Taliban splinter group than an ISIS-led faction.
But a UN report released in September detailed ISIS’s expansive recruitment network in Afghanistan, via its local faction.

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Discipline: Images from inside the training camp reveal fighters wearing yellow balaclavas in regimented rows

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Strength: Estimates now put the numbers of ISIS fighters in the four districts south of Jalalabad at somewhere between 1,200 and 1,600

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Education: At the training camp run by ISIS's Afghan faction, which is taking over vast swathes of the country

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Aim: Members of ISIS' Afghanistan faction Wilayat Khurasan undergo training in the east of the country

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ISIS fighters who are expanding the so-called caliphate into Afghanistan pose in front of the terror group's flag

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The group began its terrifying expansion into Afghanistan last autumn but it was only internationally acknowledge in September, but a UN report

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ISIS’s campaign of terror in Afghanistan reflects with alarming similarities its expansion in other countries

 

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It claimed some 70 of ISIS's elite fighters had come from Iraq and Syria to drive the creation of the jihadists’ branch in the country.
Estimates now put the numbers of ISIS fighters in the four districts south of Jalalabad at somewhere between 1,200 and 1,600.
U.S. officials have also acknowledged the threat.
‘We used to call it nascent,’ said General John Campbell, commander of U.S.-led troops in Afghanistan, in July.
‘Now we say it is probably operationally emergent.’
The reported death of the Taliban’s elected leader in the country could prove to be one of the final nails in the group’s coffin, as ISIS moves to destroy the Taliban from the top down.

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A Taliban fighter sits on a motorcycle adorned with the Taliban flag north of Kabul, Afghanistan. ISIS are moving in on Taliban territory in Afghanistan

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ISIS fighters pose with the terror group's flag in Syria. A branch of the group in Afghanistan is recruiting members in 25 of the country's 34 provinces (file image)

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ISIS fighters began their invastion of Afghanistan last autumn, although it took months for officials to acknowledge the threat the group posed in the country (file image)

The alleged shooting comes just four months after Mansour’s election as leader, which sparked immediate splits in the group.
Some top leaders refused to pledge allegiance to Mansour, saying the process to select him was rushed and biased.
A breakaway faction of the Taliban led by Mullah Mohamed Rasool was formed last month, in the first formal split in the once-unified group.
The fault-line formed between those supporting renewed peace talks with Kabul in the 36-year-old conflict, and the groups allied to ISIS fighting to overthrow it.
Rasool’s deputy, Mallah Dadullah, was killed last month in a gunfight with Mansour loyalists, according to Afghan officials.


Afghan residents feelings on death of Taliban leader Omar

 

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Afghan special forces arrive for a battle with the Taliban in Kunduz, northern Afghanistan (file image). At first, Wilayat Khurasan was seen more as a Taliban splinter group than an ISIS-led faction.

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Afghanistan's security forces take their positions during a clash with Taliban fighters north of Kabul, Afghanistan (file image). A breakaway faction of the Taliban led by Mullah Mohamed Rasool was formed last month, in the first formal split in the once-unified group.

Now Rasool’s faction appears to have taken its revenge.
But the Taliban, which concealed the death of its previous leader, Mullah Omar, for two years, has insisted that Mansour is alive and well.
‘The sheer volume of rumours suggesting that something has happened to Mansour will pressure the Taliban to offer proof that he’s alive,’ a Western official in Kabul said.
‘Simply posting denials…won’t be considered credible enough, especially after Omar’s death was concealed for years.’

 

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[h=1]Obama: U.S. safe against ISIS attack[/h]
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Obama: U.S. safe against ISIS attack


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[h=1]ISIS claims responsibility for San Bernardino shooting that left 14 dead[/h]

 

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ISIS moves in on Afghanistan: Chilling pictures show jihadis have set up terror training camps as it's claimed they have KILLED the Taliban's leader and seized control of large parts of the war-torn nation

• Taliban has been divided by a bitter turmoil, leading to ISIS-led splinter cell
• ISIS is targeting Taliban's territory in Afghanistan with a campaign of terror
• Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour is reported to have been shot dead
• His death could be an ISIS attempt to destroy Taliban from the top down

Reports emerged this week that the Taliban leader was killed in a dramatic internal shoot-out after a meeting of commanders of the now divided movement turned sour.
The formerly united group has been severed by a bitter internal turmoil that has seen a splinter cell break away and declare loyalty to ISIS, which is steadily carving a trail of bloody destruction through the Taliban’s Afghanistan territory.
It is believed that members of the ISIS-led breakaway cell could be responsible for the as yet unconfirmed death of the Taliban’s elected leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour.
His death, if proven, exposes the strife among the Taliban’s top ranks as the group seems to be crumbling under ISIS’ growing strength in Afghanistan.

Muslims killing Muslims. Win/Win. No?

 

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ISIS claims responsibility for San Bernardino shooting that left 14 dead

Will the POTUS ever step into reality.

 

[GasMan]

WAIT...but vitterd said they are not in the US?

vitterd, do you realize now that you are 100% fucking wrong about just about everything in here?

 

[SheriffJoe]

"This attack is 100% Bush's fault!" -- Baghdad vtard

 

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According to Democrats like Obama, Bernie Sanders, and such....

This wasnt terrorism, it was Climate Change. Climate Change possessed two innocent individuals, and caused them to release deadly Co2 into a group of party goers in San Bernadino. While releasing Co2 from their crude Co2 machines, shrapnel was spewed and killed 14 people and injured several others. Climate change then forced these 2 innocents to take a Co2 emitting machine, an SUV, and carelessly drive it around the city... spewing emmissions recklessly to all the residents. The police were finally able to take the SUV out, the 2 innocents were bystander casualties caught in the crossfire.

 

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I’d like to buy a vowel. E

 

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I’d like to buy a vowel. E

Only "I" and "U" are left lol

 

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[h=1]Rapid rise of the death cult: Graphic shows the terrifying spread of ISIS across the globe in just two years as terror groups across South East Asia and Africa queue up to swear allegiance[/h]

• In the past two years, dozens of groups operating across the globe have sworn loyalty to the barbaric extremists
• It includes jihadis in Uzbekistan, the Philippines and low-lying Russia, while sleeper cells have been formed in Africa
• Many of the groups have been operating for decades and are responsible for kidnappings, bombings and extortion
• Aside from their brutality they have one common goal - the establishment of an Islamic state governed by Sharia law

The full scale of Islamic State's influence can today be laid bare as it's revealed dozens of terror groups worldwide have pledged their allegiance to the barbaric extremists.
From militia lurking in the jungles of the Philippines to sleeper cells training in the deserts of Libya, a vast array of groups are now claiming to be operating alongside the jihadis' notorious black and white banner.
It is clear the groups have little in common except their desire to establish their own kingdoms governed by a traditional interpretation of Sharia law. But they are united by one other common principle - they will do anything to realise their goals.

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It's believed more than 40 international groups have pledged their support to ISIS and its ruthless leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (pictured)

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Many of the rebel groups operating worldwide have sent fighters to battle with ISIS forces (pictured) in the Middle East, while others simply operate as a symbolic partner






Among the atrocities to be attributed to these groups is the use of child soldiers, suicide bombings, gangland-style warfare, kidnappings and extortion.
Frighteningly, the vast majority of them have pledged their allegiance to ISIS either this year or in 2014, suggesting the group is enjoying a rapid growth of influence.
In total, a staggering 42 international groups are believed to have offered support or pledged affiliation to ISIS and its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, according to the Global Terrorism Index, published last month by the Institute for Economics and Peace.
Some, such as Saudi Arabia's Supporters of the Islamic State in the Land of the Two Holy Mosques, may be little more than rag-tag groupings of people inspired by the ISIS banner.
But others, such as Nigeria's Boko Haram or the Philippines' Abu Sayyaf, have been operating independently for many years and are among multiple well-established groups to swear loyalty to the organisation.




The degree to which these groups are linked to ISIS also varies - some have made only an offer of support or symbolic association. Others are thought to have sent fighters to the Middle East, or are groups established by ISIS that essentially operate as sleeper cells.
Dr Christina Schori Liang, a senior fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, told MailOnline ISIS had simply fostered a brand which was so effective other terror groups wanted to be associated with it.
She said: 'They appear to others to be very high performance and this increases their legitimacy. If one market dries up they always have others they fall back upon and other terrorist groups can see that.
'It offers these groups global recognition that they are part of one of the most effective terrorist organisations in the world. It's just the idea that they're part of a greater social movement.'
Using methods Dr Liang said were akin to a successful start-up company, ISIS has created its own markets - such as its illicit oil trade - while also spreading itself further to tap into other revenue.
Dr Liang said she feared ISIS and its vast array of affiliates would soon extend beyond their symbolic and ideological ties to start operating like a multinational company.
She explained: 'It's kind of like a mafia organisation. Everyone has their own business and if they co-operate more I can see them extending their businesses to one another - so it could enrich them even further.
'I think of ISIS as always looking for new markets. They may not necessarily get into the [other groups'] market, but will take a piece of the cut.'

 

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ISIS supporters in Africa include Boko Haram, the deadly Islamic militants operating in Nigeria who made headlines for the mass abduction of schoolgirls in 2014.
Such is the scale of terror the group inflicts on the country's north-east, Boko Haram was recently named as the deadliest terror group operating today.
Although this requires discounting the estimated 20,000 battlefield deaths caused by ISIS, in terms of sheer acts of terror and wholesale slaughter, the group takes top spot.
Led by the mysterious Abubakar Shekau, the group pledged allegiance to ISIS in March this year. It has been suggested the brutal leader died several years ago but his profile is purposely kept alive as part of the Boko Haram 'brand'.
The group earned notoriety when it kidnapped several hundred schoolgirls from the city of Chibok, in the country's north-east. They were forced to convert to Islam and marry members of Boko Haram as slave brides.
Although the Nigerian army has this year recaptured much of the territory seized by Boko Haram in its six-year campaign to carve out an Islamic state, the militants have recently struck back with a surge of deadly raids and suicide bombings.
Some of its latest attacks occurred last month when a string of suicide bombers - now believed to have been children as young as 11 - blew themselves up, killing more than 40 people.
At the weekend, three female suicide bombers attacked a busy market on an island in Lake Chad, leaving at least 27 people dead and 90 injured.

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A video posted online in January this year purported to show the leader of Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, issuing a warning to the Cameroon government

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The group carries out near-weekly attacks across north-east Nigeria, the latest of which was a series of suicide bombings perpetrated by children

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Boko Haram received notoriety last year when it kidnapped several hundred schoolgirls (pictured) from the city of Chibok

Further north, ISIS-inspired splinter cells have been established in Egypt - where ISIS claimed to have destroyed the Russian Metrojet airliner over the Sinai province. Similar operations are thought to be operating in Tunisia, which has suffered three attacks this year, and Libya.
To the east, Sudan's longstanding Islamic group Al-Attasam belKetab wa al-Sunna announced in July last year it would endorse ISIS.
The organisation broke with Sudan's Muslim Brotherhood in 1991 to establish a stricter Islamic movement. It is another of many groups to have once been aligned to Al-Qaeda, only to switch allegiance as ISIS gained in prominence.
However, ISIS-inspired groups are no longer limited to north African countries. In Mali the rebel group Al-Murabitoon was said to have declared its support for ISIS in May 2015.
This group was formed by the fearsome one-eyed Algerian Mokhtar Belmokhtar, who was battle-hardened in the wars against the Soviets in Afghanistan and then against the U.S.-led forces.
However - there remains some dispute about the authenticity of its allegiance after its declaration of support, which consisted of a radio recording, was rejected by Belmokhtar a few days later.
It is likely there is a rift within the organisation and Belmokhtar's branch of the jihadis may still remain loyal to Al-Qaeda. The organisation claimed responsibility for the Bamako hotel attack last month that left 22 dead.

 

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Just this week, ISIS released a recruitment song in Mandarin aimed at Chinese nationals. However, it's not entirely clear who the song is directed at.
Insurgents within the country's ethnic Uyghur population, who are thought to have joined ISIS in the past and are among the country's 20million-strong Muslim population, do not speak Mandarin.
One of the more far-reaching groups to join the ISIS ranks in recent months is Abu Sayyaf - a small, mobile and deadly terror group which has formed a terrifying reputation within the long-standing Philippines insurgency.
Active across the country's south, they are only one of many rebel groups attempting to carve out an independent Islamic province in the area.
The group is responsible for atrocities that include kidnapping, rape, extortion and drug trafficking and murder, and in July last year the group pledged allegiance to ISIS. It, like its Middle Eastern compatriots, specialises in kidnapping.
Abu Sayyaf militants are believed to be currently holding nine different hostages, including a Dutch man kidnapped three years ago, two Malaysians and a town mayor.
However, unlike ISIS, which routinely kills those it has taken captive, Abu Sayyaf takes a more practical approach to its kidnappings. They are carried out purely for financial gain, and the terrorists will happily spend several years drawing out negotiations in order to secure a ransom.
In 2004, the group was found to be responsible for the bombing of Superferry 14 - a passenger ship departing the country's capital of Manila. Some 116 people were killed in the attack, and to date it remains the Philippines' worst terrorist atrocity.
Although it has been classed as a terrorist organisation by a host of Western countries, Abu Sayyaf treads a fine line between ideological rebellion and criminal enterprise.
Meanwhile, the Bangasamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters, led by Ameril Umbra Kato, was formed in 2010 when it broke away from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
It too, like a handful of other groups in the area, wants complete autonomy in the country's south for a new Islamic state. Its leader and founder Kato died earlier this year from health-related issues - just months after the central government launched an operation to arrest him.
They were said to have pledged support to ISIS in August 2014.

Abu Sayyaf militants wearing bandannas and camouflage fatigues rest in the jungle armed with explosives and machine guns

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In 2002, Abu Sayyaf militants took U.S. missionaries Martin and Gracia Burnham hostage from a resort in Palawan, in the country's west. A year later, Filipino army troops conducted a rescue operation in which Mr Burnham was killed

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Members of the breakaway Muslim separatist group Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters stand guard on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao. The group pledged its support to ISIS in August 2014

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The group's leader and founder Ameril Umbrakato (third from right) died earlier this year from health-related issues

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Mujahideen Indonesia Timor (pictured), a rebel group operating in Indonesia, is thought to be the first in the country to swear loyalty to ISIS

Other groups in the country to have declared support for the Middle Eastern jihadis include Ansar al-Khilafah in the Philippines and Ma'rakat al-Ansar.
Next door, Indonesia's feared Abu Wardah Santoso - the leader of the self-declared Mujahideen Indonesia Timor - remains his country's most wanted man. According to local media, his group is believed to be Indonesia's first to swear loyalty to ISIS and is responsible for killing civilians and several of the country's anti-terror officers.
The third major terror organisation in the area linked to ISIS is Jemaah Islamiah - the group responsible for the 2002 Bali Bombings which killed 202 people.
While it has refrained from openly swearing loyalty or allegiance to its Middle Eastern counterparts, authorities believe the two organisations have close links and there may be up to 200 Indonesian or Malaysian members operating in Syria and Iraq.
Formed in Malaysia in the 1990s while its founders were seeking refuge from the Suharto dictatorship, it has a history of fostering operational links with other jihadi groups within the region.

 

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Unsurprisingly, ISIS enjoys far reaching support closer to its self-declared caliphate in Syria and Iraq. This includes affiliates in Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The strength of many of these groups is difficult to determine, and some may be small clusters of ISIS-inspired jihadis, rather than organised terror cells.
However, its reach also extends much further north - to the lower reaches of Russia, where Islamic insurgencies battling Putin have switched over to join ISIS's global enterprise.
ISIS in the Caucasus Province was created in June this year and lies in south-west Russia, amid a brewing insurgency Putin has battled for years in and around Chechnya.
Some have stated it is no surprise a group has been formed in the region. While it has a history of Islamic insurgency, ISIS is known to cherish the ferocity of the Chechen fighters within its ranks and they are considered prized recruits among the battalions fighting in Syria and Iraq.
Similar to some of the ISIS operations underway in north Africa, it appears to have been established solely as an ISIS cell and was not in existence in a different form prior to this.
However, its leader Rustam Asildarov was recruited from Vilayat Dagestan - a jihadi group created during the Second Chechen War.
It lays claim to areas surrounding Dagestan, Georgia and Chechnya, as well as a handful of provinces in Russia's south that stretch up to Sochi where the 2014 Winter Olympics were held.
To its east in northern Afghanistan and Pakistan lies a group named the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.
Operating in the far northern reaches of the countries, and originally emanating from Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, the group in previous years has been closely allied to the Taliban and Al-Qaeda.
But this changed midway through 2015 when its leadership publicly switched its allegiance to ISIS.
It is the first Central Asian jihadi group to declare its allegiance to ISIS, though it is not clear if it is the same group referred to as 'ISIS in the Kohrasan Province'.

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This is the moment the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, now based around Afghanistan and Pakistan, publicly swore allegiance to ISIS

While its formative years in the 1990s were focused on establishing an Islamic state in Uzbekistan, it has since spread south to combat Pakistani authorities and Western forces in Afghanistan.
The group was designated a terrorist organisation by the U.S. more than a decade ago for its links to Al-Qaeda and due to several high profile kidnappings.
It made headlines after taking a group of Japanese scientists hostage in 1999, and the following year four U.S. mountain climbers were captured. They later managed to escape.
Since 2012 it has been headed by Usman Ghazi when he succeeded a commander killed in a US drone strike.
In recent years the group has been linked to suicide bombings and several gun battles with authorities throughout the Central Asia region, while it also stands accused of drug smuggling. Last year it claimed responsibility for the attack on Karachi airport in Pakistan which killed 39 people.
Early this year, it released a video showing a beheading. Their victim was believed to have been one of 31 people they took hostage from a bus in Afghanistan.
Groups allied to the jihadis have also surfaced in the Gaza Strip - where their main target remains Israel. The Mujahideen Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem was formed three or four years ago.
Compared to many other organisations, it declared its support for ISIS relatively early, in February 2014. Six months later, it had been designated a terrorist organisation by the U.S. for its rocket and IED attacks on Israel.
And in Saudi Arabia, a shadowy group calling itself Supporters of the Islamic State in the Land of the Two Holy Mosques has sworn its allegiance to ISIS.
Though Saudi Arabia has been subjected to ISIS-inspired attacks, it remains unclear how organised the group is, and whether it has received official backing from ISIS.

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Last year the group claimed responsibility for the attack on Karachi airport in Pakistan, which killed 39 people

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Originally emanating from Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan was another group to have once been aligned to the Taliban and Al-Qaeda