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The Taliban’s Plan to Rebuild and Legitimize al-Qaeda

28th November, 2023 · admin · Leave a comment

Geopolitical Monitor: The current Taliban regime has renewed its symbiotic relationship with the remnants of al-Qaeda. And though their global return may not be imminent, it must be remembered that the terrorist group is laying low by choice. Under this arrangement, al-Qaeda has agreed to stay under the radar, for now, in order to aid

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Al-Qaeda: A Defeated Threat? Think Again.

22nd November, 2023 · admin

WarontheRocks: Contradicting Biden’s assessment, the Taliban’s 2021 ascension reinvigorated al-Qaeda’s Afghan operations. Al-Qaeda commanders are back in Afghanistan, swiftly reactivating the group’s presence. Training camps are now operational in five provinces, including Zabul and Nuristan, areas that Osama bin Laden once earmarked as crucial for al-Qaeda. In Nuristan, these camps are actively training suicide bombers,

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Posted in Al-Qaeda, Opinion/Editorial, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations |
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Taliban Have Never Severed Ties with Al-Qaeda, Says Michael McCaul

3rd October, 2023 · admin

8am: Michael McCaul, the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the US House of Representatives, has stated that the Taliban have never severed their ties with Al-Qaeda and are currently fighting against “ISIS-K as part of an internal struggle for power.” In a press release issued on Monday, October 2nd, the Committee reported McCaul’s

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Posted in Al-Qaeda, ISIS/DAESH, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Taliban Security Failure |
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On Anniversary of 9/11 Attacks, US Says Al-Qaida in Afghanistan all but Dead

11th September, 2023 · admin

Jeff Seldin VOA News September 11, 2023 WASHINGTON — More than two decades after al-Qaida operatives slammed passenger jets into New York’s World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania, America’s war on terror has left the terror group practically impotent, unable to strike the U.S. homeland, according to the latest U.S. intelligence assessment.

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Posted in Al-Qaeda, History, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations |
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Denying the Resurgence of Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan: Are Facts Being Distorted?

11th September, 2023 · admin

8am: The presence of Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan under the rule of the Taliban has become a contentious issue for Republicans and Democrats in the United States. In the latest development, CNN, citing two American officials, has reported that the revival of Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan seems unlikely. According to the report, these American officials

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Posted in Al-Qaeda, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations |
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Afghanistan Reemerging as a Terrorism Incubator

18th August, 2023 · admin

Jeff Seldin VOA News August 18, 2023 Two years after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, there is growing consensus that the country is again devolving into a hotbed of terrorism activity that is already beginning to affect the region, if not yet capable of reaching the West. Some of the more damning assessments have come

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Posted in Al-Qaeda, Haqqani Network, ISIS/DAESH, Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Security, Taliban | Tags: Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement/Turkistan Islamic Party, Hekmatyar, Hezb-e Islami, Islamic Jihad Group, Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, Jamaat Ansarullah, Khatiba Imam al-Bukhari, Lashkar-e-Islam, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Taliban Security Failure, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan |
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NATO-Calibre Weapons Being Transferred to Daesh Khurasan: UN

13th August, 2023 · admin

Tolo News: The UN Security Council in its seventeenth report of the Secretary-General on the threat posed by Daesh to international peace and security, said that the regional Member States reported that North Atlantic Treaty Organization-calibre weapons typically associated with the former Afghan National Defence and Security Forces were being transferred to Daesh Khurasan by

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Posted in Al-Qaeda, ISIS/DAESH, Security, Taliban, UN-Afghanistan Relations |
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UNSC Report Shines Disturbing Light on Taliban-Terrorist Nexus

29th July, 2023 · admin

Michael Hughes AOPNEWS July 29, 2023 Al-Qaeda is covertly extending external operations capability inside Afghanistan while IS-K and a host of other terror groups continue to gain strength and are preparing to launch campaigns targeting states across Central Asia and Europe, according to a new UN Security Council report released earlier this week. The report

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Posted in Al-Qaeda, AOP Reports, Central Asia, ISIS/DAESH, Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Security, Taliban, UN-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Destabilization of Central Asia, Taliban blowback, Taliban Security Failure, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan |
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Taliban Persistently Refute al-Zawahiri’s Death By US Drone Strike, One Year On

24th July, 2023 · admin

Ayaz Gul VOA News July 24, 2023 Nearly a year after the United States killed al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahiri in a drone strike in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, the country’s Taliban leaders continue to make conflicting claims about the circumstances around the death of the world’s most wanted man, raising doubts about their counterterrorism pledges. “We

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US would have invaded Afghanistan even without bin Laden: Taliban deputy PM

20th July, 2023 · admin

Ariana: The United States would invade Afghanistan even if al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden left the country, Maulavi Abdul Kabir, [Taliban] deputy prime minister of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), said on Wednesday. “It was the zeal of our Amir-ul-Mominin that he didn’t leave something that would taunt us, which would be handing over

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Posted in Al-Qaeda, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Mawlawi Abdul Kabir |
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