Anas Haqqani, a senior Taliban official and member of the notorious Haqqani Network jihadist organization, endorsed Twitter over its nascent Facebook rival Threads on Monday, celebrating pro-China owner Elon Musk for allegedly protecting “freedom of speech.”
According to U.N. investigators, at least three high-ranking officials in the Taliban regime have strong links to al-Qaeda.
A power struggle looks to be brewing in the junta ruling Afghanistan, as Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani – an FBI Most Wanted terrorist, New York Times published commentator, and leader of the Haqqani Network – lodged a bit of veiled public criticism against Taliban Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada over the weekend.
Tajmir Jawad, deputy minister of intelligence for the Taliban junta in Afghanistan, boasted in a national television interview on Saturday that he organized a bloody 2018 suicide bombing in Kabul that killed more than a hundred people, including women and children.
Taliban “Interior Minister” Sirajuddin Haqqani, a seasoned terrorist with a $10 million FBI bounty on his head, told United Nations officials on Monday that the jihadis would soon offer a “reasonable and permanent solution” regarding girls’ and women’s education.
In an interview with independent journalist Tera Dahl, Afghan resistance leader Ahmad Massoud denounced the Taliban as no less extreme than the Islamic State and faulted both Western nations and the ousted government of Afghanistan for errors that allowed the Taliban to return to power.
The Taliban jihadist terror organization confirmed the arrival in Afghanistan on Monday of convicted heroin “kingpin” Bashir Noorzai, a terrorist-affiliated warlord the administration of leftist President Joe Biden freed in exchange for American engineer Mark Frerichs.
The “Interior Ministry” of the terrorist government of the Taliban advertised in a news conference on Sunday the development of an armed forces wing dedicated to suicide bombing, the “Martyrdom Brigades,” calling the bombers “our source of pride.”
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said in a press conference Thursday that the Taliban considers America’s claim to have eliminated al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri with a drone strike in a wealthy area of Kabul an “allegation” and that Taliban terrorists have yet to find his body.
U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price incorrectly labeled the Haqqani network and the Taliban as “separate entities” on August 27, 2021, when responding to a reporter’s question at a press briefing concerning the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden’s chaotic withdrawal of U.S. armed forces from Afghanistan that month.
One year after President Joe Biden’s catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan, and two weeks after Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was liquidated by a U.S. airstrike while living as a guest of the Taliban in Kabul, it’s worth taking a look back at the February 2020 decision by the New York Times to give top terrorist leader Sirajuddin Haqqani space to explain “What We, the Taliban, Want.”
When the Taliban jihadist organization returned to power in Afghanistan a year ago on Monday, its spokesmen promised one thing above all: the new and improved Taliban regime would be “inclusive.”
Taliban “interior minister” Sirajuddin Haqqani, who several reports claim may have owned the home where a U.S. airstrike eliminated al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri a little over a week ago, launched a tour of remote Helmand province this weekend to applaud the “jihadi achievements” of its people.
Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri reportedly met his end on Sunday morning while enjoying the view from the balcony of his safe house, which was located in an upscale Kabul neighborhood inhabited by top Taliban officials. A U.S. drone blew Zawahiri off the balcony with a precision missile that left the other occupants of his home uninjured.
The Taliban backpedaled on Thursday after FBI-wanted terrorist and Afghan “Interior Minister” Sarajuddin Haqqani threatened the United States if Washington did not recognize the Taliban as a legitimate government.
The Taliban’s Anas Haqqani was reported to Norwegian police for war crimes over the weekend amid a Taliban delegation visiting the country.
Protests broke out in Maimana, capital of Afghanistan’s Faryab province, on Thursday after the Taliban arrested one of their own commanders, Uzbekistan-born Makhdoom Alam. A veteran battlefield commander and “shadow governor” of Faryab under the Taliban’s “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,” Alam was the highest-ranking Uzbek in the Taliban hierarchy.
U.S. Special Representative to Afghanistan Thomas West on Monday hoped the Taliban would be “successful” in its battle against the Islamic State, and hinted the new rulers of Afghanistan needed to sever their ties with al-Qaeda if they desire international recognition.
Taliban “Interior Minister” Sirajuddin Haqqani, a U.S. “specially designated global terrorist,” handed out land and cash rewards to the families of jihadist suicide bombers in an event in Kabul on Tuesday, declaring them the “heroes of Islam.”
A Taliban spokesman on Tuesday denied rumors that Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, recently named deputy prime minister of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, has been killed in a gun battle with a rival Taliban faction.
The Biden administration and European leaders reacted with “concern” to Tuesday’s announcement of a Taliban government filled with mullahs and terrorists, but none of them seemed to rule out working with – or perhaps even formally recognizing – a regime whose interior minister is wanted by the FBI.
The Taliban announced its “caretaker” government on Tuesday, and the list of top officials included some familiar names: four of the five Taliban leaders released from prison by President Barack Obama in exchange for kidnapped U.S. Army deserter Bowe Bergdahl in 2014.
Top Taliban leader Anas Haqqani told an Afghan news outlet on Wednesday that it was wrong for the U.S. military to destroy and disable some of the equipment it left behind.
U.S. weaponry and military equipment abandoned in Afghanistan be will be reverse-engineered by China and Russia, Oliver North said.
The Taliban put a senior member of the Haqqani family in charge of higher education in Afghanistan on Sunday, soon after the Biden State Department’s astonishing, and verifiably false, assertion that the Taliban and the Haqqani Network are entirely separate entities.
The Taliban’s self-described “chief of security” in Kabul, Khalil Ur-Rahman Haqqani, was designated as a terrorist in 2008 by the U.S. government, which offered a $5 million reward for information leading to his arrest.
Multiple mainstream American outlets claimed this week that the White House had evidence indicating that the Chinese Communist Party offered unspecified “non-state actors” money to attack American troops in Afghanistan, the Afghan outlet Khaama Press noted on Thursday.
Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security (NDS) arrested ten Chinese nationals who were allegedly operating a “terror cell in the capital city of Kabul,” according to a Christmas Day report from the Hindustan Times.
The New York Times on Thursday published an op-ed written by Sirajuddin Haqqani, deputy leader of the Taliban and a globally designated terrorist with a $5 million FBI reward on his head. Haqqani used the opportunity extended by the Times to recite Taliban propaganda and lay out the terrorist organization’s terms for peace in Afghanistan.
The Taliban released two Western professors, an American and an Australian, on Tuesday after more than three years in captivity. In exchange, the Afghan government released three Taliban jihadists and flew them to Qatar.
American Caitlan Coleman, whom the Taliban took hostage while she was pregnant and held her captive in Afghanistan for five years, placed blame for the ordeal on her Canadian husband and fellow captive, Joshua Boyle, saying his sympathies towards the group led to their travel to the country and her having three children in captivity, ABC News reported Wednesday.
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Monday that it was time for Pakistan to get onboard with peace talks to end the war in Afghanistan.
The administration of Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday summoned the U.S. envoy in Islamabad to register a strong protest against U.S. President Donald Trump’s assertion that the country has failed to take decisive action against radical Islam.
Pakistan remained a safe haven last year for Afghan Taliban and Haqqani Network (HQN) jihadis despite the pressure the Trump administration applied on the country to stop harboring terrorist groups, the U.S. State Department reported on Wednesday.
The Taliban released a statement on Tuesday confirming the death of Mawlavi Jalaluddin Haqqani, founder of the notorious Haqqani Network (HQN), a terrorist organization allied with the Taliban and al-Qaeda. The Haqqani Network quickly made it known that new leaders are prepared to take over and Haqqani’s death will not hinder its operations.
There is only a “scanty residual presence” of jihadists left in Pakistan, claimed a top general who declared last week that Islamabad has extinguished all “organized” terrorist “sanctuaries” in the nation.
The United States has deemed protecting the sprawling Afghan capital of Kabul the “main effort” of an intensified U.S.-backed offensive following a series of high-profile terrorist assaults at the hands of the Taliban and the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), revealed the top commander of American and NATO forces in Afghanistan.
American taxpayers should help Islamabad foot the bill for the fence it is constructing along Afghanistan-Pakistan border, declared the Pakistani foreign minister this week.
The Pakistani government has rejected Afghan officials’ claim that the Haqqani Network, considered one of the most dangerous Pakistan-based terrorist groups, carried out an attack on the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan this weekend.
Pakistan has urged the Afghan Taliban and its al-Qaeda-linked Haqqani Network allies to go back to Afghanistan and join the “political mainstream” there in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s request that Islamabad take “decisive action” with the jihadist groups, Breitbart News has learned.
