Taliban Has Not Severed Ties With Al Qaeda

A new report issued by the United Nations claims that the Taliban has not broken its ties with the terror group, Al Qaeda, threatening a key aspect of the peace deal signed between the organization and the White House.

The deal between the White House and Taliban, which was signed in February, indicated that the Taliban had "agreed that they would break that relationship and that they would work alongside of us (the United States) to destroy, deny resources to and have al-Qaeda depart from that place."

Despite the terms of the agreement, the Taliban has failed to actually sever those ties, according to the United Nations report and that their link with Al Qaeda is fully intact.

The original deal between the White House and the Taliban stated that the U.S. would decrease the number of troops in Afghanistan from 12,000 to 8,600 by the middle of July, and that all troops would withdraw from the area within 14 months of the signing of the deal if the Taliban honored their commitments.

In summary, despite the terms outlined in the deal between the Taliban and the White House, ties between the terror organization Al-Qaeda and the Taliban are still very much active. The report made by the United Nations highlighted several conversations that show the two organizations have maintained their relationship. As such, we label the claim that the Taliban is not severing their ties with Al Qaeda as “true.”