A review of Antonio Giustozzi, The Islamic State in Khorasan: Afghanistan, Pakistan and the New Central Asian Jihad. London: Hurst, 2018.
By March 2019, the Islamic State in the Levant (ISIL) had been almost entirely eradicated, with only several thousand militants entrenched in Eastern Syria. But given the extent of ISIL’s reach, its demise will have consequences far beyond the Middle East.
In this regard, Antonio Giustozzi’s new book about the Islamic State in Afghanistan and Pakistan is a timely contribution for readers who want to understand how the organisation’s defeat may further destabilise Afghanistan and parts of Pakistan where it has expanded since 2015.
