US Offers $10 Million for Intel on ISIS-K Leader and Kabul Airport Attack

U.S. Air Force loadmasters and pilots assigned to the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron load passengers aboard a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III in support of the Afghanistan evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport (HKIA) in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 24, 2021. Master Sgt. Donald R. Allen/U.S. Air Forces Europe-Africa via Getty Images

The United States on Monday announced two rewards of up to $10 million each for information leading to the identification or location of ISIS-K leader Sanaullah Ghafari, and for information leading to the arrest or conviction of those responsible for last year’s deadly attack at Kabul international airport.

ISIS-K, is the regional ISIS affiliate that first appeared in 2014 and is named after an old term for the Khorasan region. It has previously fought both the Western-backed government that fell in August and the Taliban.