Taliban Head Warns of Infiltrators Among Ranks
KABUL (Al Jazeera) – The leader of the Taliban, Haibatullah Akhunzada, warned the group that there may be “unknown” entities among their ranks who are “working against the will of the government”. The warning came in a statement attributed to Akhunzada that was circulated widely on Taliban social media accounts on Thursday, Al-Jazeera reported. The Taliban’s leader has not been seen in public since the group seized power nearly three months ago, capturing the Afghan capital of Kabul on August 15 and declaring a government as U.S. troops withdrew following a decades-long occupation.