Taliban Flaunts Terrorism Commitments by Appointing al-Qaida-Affiliated Governors
Roshan Noorzai VOA News June 26, 2023 WASHINGTON — For more than 15 years, Qari Baryal has been on a special list of Washington’s “most-wanted” Taliban and al-Qaida leaders in Afghanistan, accused of carrying out bombing and suicide attacks across the country. Baryal and the militants he oversaw were “involved in the supervision of IED [improvised