Al Qaeda Praises Taliban’s ‘Historic Victory’ In Afghanistan

Current Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri accepted the Taliban's top leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, who holds the title of Amir ul-Muminun, as a supreme authority. In this 1998 picture, Zawahiri is with Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan. (Mazhar Ali Khan / AP Archive)  

Long War Journal: Al Qaeda praises Taliban’s ‘historic victory’ in Afghanistan 

Al Qaeda’s senior leadership has released a two-page statement congratulating the Islamic ummah on the occasion of the Taliban’s victory in Afghanistan. 

The brief message was distributed online by As Sahab, al Qaeda’s central media arm, in Arabic and English just hours after the last American soldier left Kabul. 

Al Qaeda’s leaders praise Allah for the victory, saying it “soothed” their hearts to hear verses from the Quran recited in the “Presidential Palace in Kabul, after it had been cleansed from the filth of the Americans.”  

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