UN suggests paying Taliban $6M to provide security
Plan to subsidize Taliban fighters' monthly wages to guard UN facilities underscores ongoing insecurity in Afghanistan following US pullout.
Tag: al-Qaida
Iran-supplied weapons smuggled into Somalia from Yemen, study finds
Guns end up in the hands of armed factions looking to influence Somali presidential elections, as well as clan militias, ...
Fear and loathing in Sinai: Is Egypt a threat to Israel?
It's true that in any future conflict with Egypt, if one were ever to erupt, the IDF will have to ...
Islamic State uses Taliban's own tactics to attack Afghanistan's new rulers
A deadly attack on Kabul airport last month and a series of bomb blasts in the eastern city of Jalalabad, ...
'When groups like al-Qaida have a safe haven, they use that to plot external operations'
Nathan Sales, who served as a senior counterterrorism official in the Trump administration, warns that the new regime in Afghanistan ...
Taliban say no al-Qaida or ISIS in Afghanistan
"We are committed to the fact that, from Afghanistan, there will not be any danger to any country," says Taliban ...
Afghanistan's Taliban government vows to prevent terrorist attacks
Amir Khan Mutaqi, a longtime Taliban negotiator named as foreign minister, cautions foreign countries against interfering in Afghanistan’s domestic affairs.
'Don't focus on hate': World marks 20th anniversary of 9/11
“So much of our politics has become a naked appeal to anger, fear and resentment,” says former US President George ...
On 9/11 anniversary, al-Qaida chief warns 'Jerusalem will not be Judaized'
Osama bin Laden successor Ayman al-Zawahiri blasts Arab "collaborators" of US, in particular Saudi Arabia, UAE, referring to them as ...
Al-Qaida was smashed, but not crushed
The organization that declared war against the west has continued to change and adapt itself to the new reality.