On June 5, a report issued by the Afghanistan United Front (AUF), led by Sami Sadat, former commander of Afghanistan's special forces, said that the Islamic State-Khorasan Province (IS-KP) currently has 9,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and can conduct attacks "throughout the region", reports Afghanistan International. AUF further said, “the IS-KP group has the ideological, human resources, and recruitment capacity to carry out attacks in Europe and the United States, and they have demonstrated this capability in Afghanistan and Iran as well.”