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Al-Qaeda Gaining Strength With Help of Taliban: Report 2021-01-27 190 1 minute read Kabul (BNA) The US Treasury Department has issued a memo stating al-Qaeda is “gaining strength” in Afghanistan under the Taliban’s “protection”. In answer to inquiries from the US Department of Defense’s Lead Inspector General on illicit terrorism financing, the US Treasury Department also stated that despite the US-Taliban deal signed in February last year that calls for the Taliban to cut ties with al-Qaeda, the two groups were still closely allied. “As of 2020, al-Qaeda is gaining strength ...

The Taliban's head of its political office, Mullah Baradar Akhand and an accompanying delegation arrived in Iran on Monday for talks with Iranian officials. The

essay series. The United States has now spent nearly a year reducing its military, diplomatic, and aid presence in Afghanistan. It has never made the full scale of these reductions public, but it has talked about reducing its military presence to 2,500 military personnel by January 2021 and about closing many military facilities. UN and other reporting have also reflected a steady decline in aid activity. The full scale of the cuts in diplomatic presence, U.S. aid workers, and various types of U.S. funded contractors—many of whom perform roles that belonged to the military in previous war...

December 12, 2020, 10:23 PM UPDATED: December 12, 2020, 10:23 PM The decision of out-going US President Donald Trump to withdraw American troops from Somalia is considered ill-timed as it paves the way for al-Shabab to plan for expanding its control over the East African country. Trump’s announcement last week was heralded by a series of attacks by the groupn even as the patchy Somalian government urged the United States to reconsider its decision. There is fear that the group would take advantage also of the impending presidential elections in the country to regain control of large tra...