New US intelligence assessments suggest that is unlikely al Qaeda will revive in Afghanistan and Pakistan and that counterterrorism operations by the Taliban in Afghanistan have degraded the Islamic States presence there two senior US officials said on Friday . The assessments described by the officials in a briefing to reporters paints an optimistic picture of the overall terrorist presence in Afghanistan suggesting it has been waning despite the US militarys withdrawal from the country in . ISISKhorasan the Afghanistan affiliate of ISIS has continued to attack highprofile targets inside Afghanistan . The Biden administration has been at pains to emphasize that it retains over the horizon capabilities to track terrorism threats emanating from South Asia . Some US officials have privately raised concerns that as the US has transitioned intelligence assets away from the Middle East and South Asia the Biden administration may struggle to track the threat posed by ISIS which continues to operate in Syria and elsewhere . Some of the officials have also expressed concerns that ISIS continues to be an ungovernable area in Syria or elsewhere . The ISISK attacks have killed and wounded dozens of civilians since the Taliban took over in part of an attempt to undermine the Talibans rule and erode public confidence in its assurances of security around the country . The Taliban have claimed that they did not know they didn’t know that they didn’t know about the Taliban’s withdrawal . The report released in June that the Taliban didn”t know they were not aware that they hadn’re not aware they didn ’t knew that they weren’to know they did. The Taliban” didn‘t know the Taliban. The report’. ISISK’ve said that they’d. didn t know that it didn‚t know it’m not aware
US intelligence suggests al Qaeda unlikely to revive in Afghanistan, but officials warn ISIS threat remains
