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In a damning report released Wednesday, the top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee said the Biden administration has no plan to help the thousands of Afghans who helped the US during its 20-year war against the Taliban but are still stuck in the crumbling country. This is according to the report from the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

In a report released Tuesday, the Defense Department's inspector general said that more than $7 billion worth of US-supplied military equipment was in the hands of the Western-backed Afghan government when it fell last year. After the Biden bugout, much of this equipment fell into the hands of the Taliban.

White House spokesman John Kirby said on Wednesday that Ayman al-Zawahiri may have been in Afghanistan since late last year. This extends the time that al Qaeda's leader has been in the war-torn country, which has been criticized for letting terrorists set up a safe haven there after the administration's disastrous withdrawal. ​

Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of Al Qaeda, was killed at the home of a Taliban member the FBI was looking for. This person was once given a platform by the New York Times.

Al-Zawahiri took over for Osama bin Laden as leader of Al-Qaeda in 2011.

Jalaluddin Haqqani, 'great reformer and conqueror' of Afghanistan. The elegiac documentary dedicated to the founder of the eponymous network, accused of the worst atrocities, highlights how much the Taliban's propaganda has progressed and evolved: they now portray themselves as competent administrators as they negotiate the country's future in Doha.

The Taliban continues to maintain a close relationship with al-Qaeda in Afghanistan in violation of a preliminary peace agreement with the Trump administration, according to a United Nations report released Monday. Al-Qaeda, which perpetrated the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, still has between 400 and 600 active members in 12 Afghanistan provinces as well as …