Less than a year after the Taliban retook power in Afghanistan following the US\u2019s chaotic 2021 withdrawal, President Joe Biden vowed the country that once harboured Osama bin Laden would \u201cnever again\u2009.\u2009.\u2009.\u2009become a terrorist safe haven\u201d. <\/p>\n
Yet a surge in international terrorist threats linked to Afghanistan is raising alarm among governments that the country that once sheltered the masterminds of the September 11, 2001 attacks is again becoming a hotspot for jihadi groups with global ambitions. <\/p>\n
Western officials blamed Islamic State-Khorasan Province, the Afghan-based affiliate of the Middle Eastern extremist group and bitter enemy of the Taliban, for last week\u2019s attack on a Moscow concert hall that killed at least 137 people. <\/p>\n
The Taliban has fought a bloody counterinsurgency campaign against Isis-K since coming to power, but analysts said the jihadist group gained substantial strength following the US withdrawal and more recently has ramped up its international activity. Isis-K was also linked to bombings in Iran in January that killed nearly 100 people, an attack on a church in Turkey the same month, and a foiled plot last week to attack Sweden\u2019s parliament that authorities said may have been directed from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n
Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n Recent terrorist attacks by Isis-K are raising alarm that Afghanistan is again becoming a hotspot for jihadi groups with global ambitions.<\/p>\n https:\/\/t.co\/4J2IqZWKrC<\/a><\/p>\n — Mike Walker (@New_Narrative) March 27, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \n