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Washington Post | Taliban continues to back al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, despite deal with Trump administration, report says
The Taliban has not broken its ties with al-Qaeda, the U.N. Security Council declared in a new report that threatened to undermine a key aspect of the Trump administration’s agreement with the Taliban to withdraw U.S. forces after nearly 19 years of war in Afghanistan.
The report states that relations between the Taliban, especially its Haqqani network, and al-Qaeda “remain close, based on friendship, a history of shared struggle, ideological sympathy and intermarriage.” Released Monday, the report is the latest of periodic, U.N. mandated assessments of Taliban-al-Qaeda relations. |
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