Al-Qaeda Regrouping in Taliban-Ruled Afghanistan: UN Report
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Al-Qaeda regrouping in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan: UN report
Washington - A quarter century after 9/11, al-Qaeda and other terror groups are regrouping in Afghanistan following the US withdrawal and return of the Taliban to power in 2021, the Washington Post reported, citing US and Western security officials and a United Nations organisation.
As the UN report stated, with the Taliban once again creating a "favorable environment," al-Qaeda has been able to "consolidate its forces, taking advantage of safe havens and training camps spread throughout Afghanistan." Other groups, including rivals, are also establishing camps. Islamist bases exist in at least 14 of Afghanistan's 34 provinces. According to government officials and counterterrorism experts, the groups currently training in A…
According to a UN report cited by the media, 25 years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, with the withdrawal of US troops and the Taliban regaining power in 2021, al-Qaeda is taking the opportunity to regroup in Afghanistan, establishing at least eight new strongholds and training camps in the past three years.
Twenty-five years after the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001, its organizer, the international Islamist terrorist organization Al-Qaeda, is regrouping in Afghanistan.
The Islamist terrorist network Al Qaeda has re-established at least eight training camps in Afghanistan over the past three years.
Al-Qaeda, taking advantage of the Taliban's return to power in Afghanistan, has opened at least eight training camps in the country over the past three years, the Washington Post reported on Saturday. The militants are not currently pursuing their pre-9/11 strategy of striking at the "distant enemy," but they are hoping to regain their former momentum. "They haven't forgotten us," says a terrorism expert.
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