Afghanistan Regains Its Crown as Terror Central

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Violence increased in Afghanistan eight months after the United States retreat allowed the Taliban to return to power, triggering fears that the country could return to being a center of instability and terrorism throughout South and Central Asia and so on.

Afghanistan has long been a base for militants with ambitions for global jihad. Dozens of groups that have been present since the last turn of the Taliban from 1996 to 2001 are operating, looking for opportunities to expand their reach, said security, diplomatic, and military sources.

Al Qaeda, Islamic State, Uzbekistan Islamic Movement (IMU), Eastern Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), Pakistani (TTP), and Lashkar-e-Taiba The UN has the presence of armed in Afghanistan for 20 years of its republic.

Afghanistan is Al Qaeda and Al Qaeda is Afghanistan,” said Ali Mohammad Ali, a security expert and a consultant who worked with the former Kabul government.

The warning that a Taliban returned to power could re -turn the terrorist threat that caused September 11, 2001, the attack on the United States was ignored ahead of the Trump 2020 government’s agreement to withdraw from the country and basically handed Afghanistan to group militants. Under the provisions of the agreement, the Taliban promised not to attack US or the United States troops. Conversely, Afghanistan is now a base for attacks on neighboring countries, including Pakistan and, apparently, Uzbekistan.

If the Afghanistan controlled by the Taliban again turned into an exporter of terror, it was partly due to the collapse of the economy and the law and its insertion; Security throughout the country is almost non -existent. An uptick in violence-from anti-tannate attacks by different resistance but grew against suicide attacks that targeted ethnic minorities such as Hazara-Indicating Islamists quickly lost whatever grip they might have. Militancy develops, mostly mobilized to geopolitical goals.

The inability of the Taliban to rule has effectively provided Carte Blanche for terrorist groups to operate in and from Afghanistan,” Ali said.

Several terror groups operating in Afghanistan, such as the affiliation of the local Islamic state, known as the Islamic-Korasanan state, have collaborated with the IMU to disrupt several Central Asian neighbors who remain in the field of Russian influence, said Mirwais Naab, a former Deputy Minister of Outer Minister Afghan State.

The Islamic State announced in a video on Monday that they had fired 10 rockets at the military base in Uzbekistan. Naab described it as “an effort [Islamic state] to claim the IMU mission in Uzbekistan and connect itself with sleeping cells and extremist groups there. But I don’t see many differences between them. They operate very close. “

It is impossible to verify the truth of the claims of the Islamic State-Khorasan. The Uzbek government calls it “provocation” and says in a statement “really not true” and that the border region is stable.