Since the September 11 terror attacks that caused the United States to occupy Afghanistan for two decades, the threat of terrorism is once again growing in the Middle Eastern country.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee released a 353-page report this week that detailed some of the terror activity that has ballooned in Afghanistan spurred on by the U.S. withdrawal in 2021.
“From the inception of the United States’ presence in Afghanistan, a primary goal has been to incapacitate terrorist groups seeking haven in the region, particularly with the Taliban’s assent,” the report states, adding that the “administration failed to plan for alternative methods of countering terrorism following the withdrawal. Terrorism, as a result, has flourished under the Biden-Harris administration.”
The threat of terrorism has increased from one group in particular. ISIS-K is an offshoot of ISIS in Afghanistan and is responsible for the deaths of 13 U.S. service members and dozens of Afghans in a suicide bombing at Hamid Karzai International Airport during the U.S. withdrawal. The United Nations now assesses that ISIS-K, especially after a terror attack on the Crocus City Hall in Moscow in March, now represents the “greatest external terrorist threat to” Europe. […]
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