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Khorasan – now even scarier than ISIS!

Many in the West misunderstand the linkages and rivalries between the plethora of jihadist brand names

18 October 2014

9:00 AM

18 October 2014

9:00 AM

As Islamic State jihadists slaughter and maim their way across two countries with sadistic efficiency, a new US-led Coalition of the Willing seeks to ‘degrade and ultimately destroy’ these Twitter-savvy barbarians. With everyone’s attention understandably focused on the black flags and head-severing prowess of IS, airstrikes also struck a different organisation in the Levant: Khorasan.

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Joseph Power is on the Executive Council at the Australian Institute of International Affairs, Queensland.

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