Thomas Joscelyn, a senior fellow at FDD and senior editor of FDD’s Long War Journal, noted that Ayman al-Zawahiri, who has led al Qaeda since Osama bin Ladin’s death, “has described the Taliban’s ‘blessed emirate’ as the ‘core’ or ‘nucleus’ of the jihadists’ effort ‘to reestablish their caliphate according
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"A lot of ISIS-K leaders were formerly Taliban or al Qaeda leaders," he said. "They are different breeds of the same species."
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