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Is Afghanistan Turning Into Terror Hub Under Taliban Rule?

13th December, 2022 · admin

Outlook: While Al Qaeda is regrouping in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) is also carrying out unabated attacks across Afghanistan. The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is also present in Afghanistan. Unless the Taliban acts against such groups, Afghanistan risks once again becoming a terror hub and a danger to all of its neighbours.

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Posted in Al-Qaeda, ISIS/DAESH, Security, Taliban | Tags: Life under Taliban rule, Taliban Security Failure |
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Back to the Past: How Taliban Rule Has Wiped Out Afghanistan’s Gains and Provided Haven for Terrorists

1st November, 2022 · admin

HSToday: When U.S. troops were withdrawn from Afghanistan and the Taliban took over the government, world leaders and others braced themselves for what the future might hold for Afghanistan and its citizens. Many feared the worst, and the Taliban did not disappoint. It claimed to have reformed its ways but, with a long history of

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Posted in Al-Qaeda, Ethnic Issues, ISIS/DAESH, Opinion/Editorial, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations |
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Al-Zawahiri’s Killing Raises Tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan

23rd October, 2022 · admin

Jamestown Foundation: The most significant question that arose in the wake of his death concerned the origin of the drone that killed him. It certainly was not from inside Afghanistan. But was it from neighboring Pakistan or some other country? And would Pakistan allow the U.S to use its airspace for a strike on al-Zawahiri

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Posted in Al-Qaeda, Drone warfare, Opinion/Editorial, Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Security, Taliban |
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In Afghanistan, Pakistan has outmanoeuvred India

19th October, 2022 · admin

Deccan Herald: Rawalpindi has used geography and geopolitics and its perceived influence over the Taliban to its advantage to reclaim its most-favoured ally status – In the months before the brutal assassination of Ahmad Shah Massoud, the commander of the India-backed Northern Alliance in Afghanistan, two days before the Al Qaida’s attacks on New York’s

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Posted in Al-Qaeda, Human Rights, India-Afghanistan Relations, NRF - National Resistance Front, Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Ahmad Shah Masood, Dr. Abdullah |
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Iran warns about rise of terrorist groups in Afghanistan

29th September, 2022 · admin

Mehr News Agency: Addressing a UN Security Council meeting on the situation in Afghanistan, Zahra Ershadi expressed concern over the reports on the resurgence of ISIL-affiliated terrorist groups in Afghanistan. “The de-facto authorities must commit to fighting terrorism and ensure to take all appropriate steps to protect diplomatic and consular premises against any intrusion or

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Posted in Al-Qaeda, Iran-Afghanistan Relations, ISIS/DAESH, Security, Taliban |
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Al-Qaeda, the Taliban and the tragedy of Afghanistan

9th September, 2022 · admin

Amin Saikal via aspistrategist.org.au: As the world marks the anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks this weekend, two other events should be remembered. Afghan commander Ahmad Shah Massoud was assassinated on 9 September 2001 by al-Qaeda agents, two days before the attacks on New York and Washington. Massoud had fought Soviet forces in Afghanistan in

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Posted in Al-Qaeda, History, NRF - National Resistance Front, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Ahmad Massoud, Ahmad Shah Masood |
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Fears, Uncertainty Torment West With Taliban in Charge of Afghan Security

30th August, 2022 · admin

VOA News: WASHINGTON — A year after the last U.S. troops left Kabul, there appears to be little consensus on whether the world, and the West in particular, is any safer from the terrorist groups that call Afghanistan home. One of the most polarizing developments in the debate came on July 31 of this year,

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Posted in Al-Qaeda, Haqqani Network, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations |
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Botched Afghan Exit Haunts Biden Despite Antiterror ‘Wins

27th August, 2022 · admin

Michael Hughes: A year after the U.S. military’s disastrously-managed withdrawal from Afghanistan, a train wreck of epic proportions that made America’s last days in Vietnam look sane, President Joe Biden is thumping his chest about his administration’s counterterrorism record. As he marked the one-year anniversary of the attack that killed thirteen U.S. service members and

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Posted in Al-Qaeda, Opinion/Editorial, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations |
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Taliban says it has not found body of al Qaeda terrorist hit by US drone strike in Kabul

25th August, 2022 · admin

Fox News: The Taliban says it has not been able to find the body of al Qaeda terrorist leader Ayman al Zawahiri after a U.S. air strike hit the home he was staying at in Afghanistan. The U.S. said it killed al Zawahiri with a drone strike in the Afghan capital of Kabul in July.

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Posted in Al-Qaeda, Drone warfare, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations |
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Biden: US strike killing Al-Zawahiri in Kabul vindicates withdrawal

14th August, 2022 · admin

USA Today: Biden said the drone strike that killed an al-Qaida leader is vindication of his decision to withdraw from Afghanistan. Experts say it highlights the vacuum created by the U.S. exit. Click here to read more (external link). Related The US and its allies indirectly encouraged Ghani to flee the country: Khurram

Posted in Al-Qaeda, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Ashraf Ghani, US betrayal of Afghans |
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