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Jalalabad prison break
The Jalalabad prison break was a coordinated attack and prison break conducted by the Islamic State – Khorasan Province (ISIS–K) on 2 August 2020 which targeted Jalalabad Prison in the provincial capital of Nangarhar Province in eastern Afghanistan. The attack, which intended to free other members of ISIS–K previously incarcerated by the Afghan government (with support from United States and NATO), has been described by counterterrorism analysts as "a highly sophisticated [...] coordinated assault" and in 2023 as "one of [ISIS–K's] most sophisticated and ambitious attacks to date."
The complex and coordinated assault on Jalalabad prison was perpetrated by nine ISIS–K attackers apportioned into five separate elements: general attack, fixing, breach, raid, and IED.
The first of five operational elements was the general attack element, which comprised three fighters, later identified by the group under the following aliases
The general attack element was armed with two Soviet-made 7.62mm PK medium machine guns, a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) launcher of unspecified model accompanied by fifteen RPG rounds, two sticky bombs (either magnetic or adhesive), and twenty-four hand grenades. The general attack element was tasked with establishing firing positions on a nearby root during the preparation phase, initiating the attack phase, clearing-by-fire the suicide car bomb's approach to the prison gate to enable the breach phase, and providing security to the assault element for the duration of the raid.
The second of the five operational elements was a breaching element. The element consisted of a single attacker, identified under the alias Abu Rawaha al-Hindi by ISIS–K, who operated a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED) packed with, what ISIS–K claimed, was "hundreds of kilograms" of explosive materials. Al-Hindi, once the path and attending personnel were cleared by the general attack element, was tasked with driving the VBIED to the prison's main gate on the south wall, and detonating it to breach the entrance, enabling the raiding element to enter the complex and free detainees.
Abu Rawaha al-Hindi (Arabic: أبو دعاء الهندي, lit. 'Rawaha's father, the Indian') was later identified by the Indian National Investigation Agency (NIA) as Ijas Kallukettiya Purayil, a doctor from Kasargod, Kerala State, in southwest India, who had been under investigation by the NIA for four years.
In July 2016, 60-year-old V.J. Sebastian Francis, a resident of Kasargod, filed a complaint with local police two months after his 30-year-old son-in-law Abdul Rashid failed to return after traveling to Mumbai, alongside his wife Sonia Sebastian (alias: Ayisha, named for Muhammad's third wife), and their two-year-old daughter, whose name has not been published. In a short period, fourteen other missing persons cases had amassed at the same police station and Kerala State Police began to investigate their disappearances, one of which included Ijas.
The investigation quickly revealed that the persons reported missing had co-conspired to leave India and join ISIS–K in eastern Afghanistan. The police were able to identify the 29-year-old Yasmeen Mohammad Zahid (resident of Jamia Nagar in New Delhi originally from Sitamarhi, Bihar) as a co-conspirator to Abdul Rashid and fundraiser for ISIS. Radicalized to Islamic jihadism, Zahid "compelled her husband to divorce her," and traveled to Ijas' home in Kasargod where she secretly attended ISIS-related training. Yasmeen was arrested on 1 August 2016 at Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi attempting to flee to Afghanistan. The NIA was able to conclude that fifteen residents of Kerala had fled to Afghanistan's Nangarhar Province to join ISIS–K. A warrant was issued for Ijas on 29 September 2016 and an INTERPOL notice published in February 2017.
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Jalalabad prison break
The Jalalabad prison break was a coordinated attack and prison break conducted by the Islamic State – Khorasan Province (ISIS–K) on 2 August 2020 which targeted Jalalabad Prison in the provincial capital of Nangarhar Province in eastern Afghanistan. The attack, which intended to free other members of ISIS–K previously incarcerated by the Afghan government (with support from United States and NATO), has been described by counterterrorism analysts as "a highly sophisticated [...] coordinated assault" and in 2023 as "one of [ISIS–K's] most sophisticated and ambitious attacks to date."
The complex and coordinated assault on Jalalabad prison was perpetrated by nine ISIS–K attackers apportioned into five separate elements: general attack, fixing, breach, raid, and IED.
The first of five operational elements was the general attack element, which comprised three fighters, later identified by the group under the following aliases
The general attack element was armed with two Soviet-made 7.62mm PK medium machine guns, a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) launcher of unspecified model accompanied by fifteen RPG rounds, two sticky bombs (either magnetic or adhesive), and twenty-four hand grenades. The general attack element was tasked with establishing firing positions on a nearby root during the preparation phase, initiating the attack phase, clearing-by-fire the suicide car bomb's approach to the prison gate to enable the breach phase, and providing security to the assault element for the duration of the raid.
The second of the five operational elements was a breaching element. The element consisted of a single attacker, identified under the alias Abu Rawaha al-Hindi by ISIS–K, who operated a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED) packed with, what ISIS–K claimed, was "hundreds of kilograms" of explosive materials. Al-Hindi, once the path and attending personnel were cleared by the general attack element, was tasked with driving the VBIED to the prison's main gate on the south wall, and detonating it to breach the entrance, enabling the raiding element to enter the complex and free detainees.
Abu Rawaha al-Hindi (Arabic: أبو دعاء الهندي, lit. 'Rawaha's father, the Indian') was later identified by the Indian National Investigation Agency (NIA) as Ijas Kallukettiya Purayil, a doctor from Kasargod, Kerala State, in southwest India, who had been under investigation by the NIA for four years.
In July 2016, 60-year-old V.J. Sebastian Francis, a resident of Kasargod, filed a complaint with local police two months after his 30-year-old son-in-law Abdul Rashid failed to return after traveling to Mumbai, alongside his wife Sonia Sebastian (alias: Ayisha, named for Muhammad's third wife), and their two-year-old daughter, whose name has not been published. In a short period, fourteen other missing persons cases had amassed at the same police station and Kerala State Police began to investigate their disappearances, one of which included Ijas.
The investigation quickly revealed that the persons reported missing had co-conspired to leave India and join ISIS–K in eastern Afghanistan. The police were able to identify the 29-year-old Yasmeen Mohammad Zahid (resident of Jamia Nagar in New Delhi originally from Sitamarhi, Bihar) as a co-conspirator to Abdul Rashid and fundraiser for ISIS. Radicalized to Islamic jihadism, Zahid "compelled her husband to divorce her," and traveled to Ijas' home in Kasargod where she secretly attended ISIS-related training. Yasmeen was arrested on 1 August 2016 at Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi attempting to flee to Afghanistan. The NIA was able to conclude that fifteen residents of Kerala had fled to Afghanistan's Nangarhar Province to join ISIS–K. A warrant was issued for Ijas on 29 September 2016 and an INTERPOL notice published in February 2017.