ISIS-K, the Islamic State group’s branch in Afghanistan that has claimed responsibility for the deadly attack on a concert hall near Moscow Friday, “views the entire world as its enemy,” and the United States should be watching carefully in the event of an attack on the homeland, defense and counterterrorism analyst John Rossomando said on Newsmax Saturday. 

“You just had the recent statement by the general head of CENTCOM warning that ISIS-K, which is the brass based out of Afghanistan, would be in a position to strike at the U.S. and allied targets,” Rossomando, who appeared with retired U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Blaine Holt on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America,” commented Saturday. 

Thursday, Gen. Michael Kurilla, who heads the U.S. military’s Central Command, told a House committee that the Islamic State group’s branch “retains the capability and the will to attack U.S. and Western interests abroad in as little as six months with little to no warning,” reports The New York Times.

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