Khorasan Group along with ISIS was the target of US air strikes in Syria last night. While the Arab countries helped with the targeting of ISIS in Syria, they didn’t lift a finger against the so called Khorasan Group.
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U.S. officials say airstrikes in Syria on Monday night were aimed in part at disrupting an “imminent attack” by Al Qaeda-tied fighters on either the United States or Europe, in the strongest evidence yet of the growing threat posed by the group.
The strikes against the so-called Khorasan Group, conducted only by the U.S., were separate from the strikes against the Islamic State in which Arab allies participated.
U.S. Central Command said eight strikes were launched against the group’s training camps, command-and-control facilities and other sites in the area west of Aleppo.
“We will not tolerate safe havens for terrorists who threaten our people,” President Obama said Tuesday, in reference to the strikes on the Khorasan Group.
Fox News is told that the targeting reflects intelligence regarding the threat of militants trying to recruit western passport-holders to act as mules and carry non-metallic explosives on jets bound for the Europe and the U.S.