JALALABAD, Afghanistan: The Islamic State group has lost its caliphate in Syria and Iraq but is expanding its footprint in the forbidding mountains of northeastern Afghanistan.

There, the group is recruiting new fighters and plotting attacks in the United States and other Western countries.

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