Days after retaking power in Afghanistan last August, the Taliban pledged that the country would never again become a haven for international jihadis.
“We assure the international community, and especially the US and neighbouring countries, that Afghanistan will not be used against them,” said the group’s spokesperson Zabiullah Mujahid at a press conference after toppling the western-backed government.
Those assurances have been upended by the revelation that a US drone strike killed al-Qaeda’s veteran leader Ayman al-Zawahiri at a safe house in the heart of Kabul over the weekend.
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