Al Qaeda loyalty to Taliban chief

- Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri has declared himself loyal to Haibatullah Akhundzada, the new leader of the Afghan Taliban. An audio message from al-Zawahri surfaced this week on the Internet at.

The Taliban were from 1996 to 2001 in power in Afghanistan. Al Qaeda flourished during the same period and prepared including in Afghanistan, the attacks of September 11, 2001 for.

Akhundzada was one of the seconds of his predecessor Mullah Akhtar Mansour and took the lead on the Taliban over after Mansour was turned off by a US drone. Al-Zawahri leading al Qaeda since US commandos killed Osama bin Laden in 2011 in Pakistan.
  
    
     
      
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