WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – Al-Qaeda continues to pose a threat to remaining US personnel in Afghanistan through their interaction with the Taliban, the US Department of Defense said in a report to Congress entitled “Enhancing Security and Stability in Afghanistan.”
Earlier this month, President Joe Biden approved a full troop withdrawal by September 11 from Afghanistan after almost 20 years of American military intervention. Biden maintained that the main purpose of the US invasion of the country in November 2001 – to prevent future terror attacks on the American homeland – had been met.
The Pentagon report to Congress said that al-Qaeda had been degraded in Afghanistan but cautioned that the terror group was still capable of attacking Americans in the country.
The Taliban, al-Qaeda and its regional affiliate, al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), along with other violent extremist organizations and organized criminal networks continue to threaten stability and security in Afghanistan, the report added.
*al-Qaeda, ISIS (Daesh/ISIL/Islamic State), terrorist groups banned in Russia and an array of other countries
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