Taliban s Terror-Laced Recruitment Drive Set to Expand as US Troops Withdraw By Hollie McKay | April 20, 2021 | 7:52pm EDT
Taliban fighters in Afghanistan’s western province of Farah. (Photo by Javed Tanveer/AFP via Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) – Deep inside a nondescript jail run by Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security on the dusty edges of Kabul, a young Taliban fighter is brought into a dun-colored, windowless room. Haibutallah’s glazed eyes are glued to the ground, and he tugs anxiously at his orange-rimmed prison dress.
He confessed that while still a teen he was lured by a friend, angered by the long-term presence of American “invaders,” to make the 300-mile journey across the porous border into the enclave of Quetta in neighboring Pakistan. There, inside the ruins of a “secret brick camp,” he underwent fighter training and the indoctrination to “fight the foreigners.”
Taliban s Terror-Laced Recruitment Drive Set to Expand as US Troops Withdraw
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By Patrick Goodenough | April 15, 2021 | 11:06pm EDT
U.S. soldiers in Kandahar province, Afghanistan. (Photo by Javed Tanveer/AFP via Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) – As it announced sanctions as part of the long-pledged “costs” and “consequences” for malign Russian behavior, the Biden administration on Thursday conceded that the intelligence community has only “low to moderate confidence” regarding one of the issues that has been under review – claims that Russia offered terrorists bounties to kill U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
While campaigning for the White House, then-Democratic nominee Joe Biden repeatedly flayed President Trump over the allegations, which were first reported in the