As France hosts the Paris Olympic Games under heightened security, members and supporters of the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) have threatened to divert the spotlight to their deadly cause by wreaking havoc at the international gathering.
ISIS may have suffered a major blow in the collapse of its self-styled caliphate in Iraq and Syria five years ago at the hands of campaigns waged by local, regional and world powers, but the multinational group has remained active and has even expanded its control in parts of Africa and Asia outside of the Middle East.
The group’s largely Afghanistan-based Khorasan province, known as ISIS-K, ISKP or IS-K, has mounted an especially ambitious campaign to strike further abroad, claiming bloody attacks in Turkey, Iran and Russia this year alone.
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