Al-Qaeda was linked to the Taliban through the "pledge of allegiance" that Osama bin Laden first offered in the 1990s to his Taliban counterpart Mullah Omar.
The two sides renewed the "pledge of allegiance" several times, although the Taliban has not publicly acknowledged it. The Taliban agreed no...
The shadow of the lack of consensus on how to tackle illegal migration still looms large over the European Union which has shown marked progress otherwise in building consensus on matters such as tackling the Brexit fallout, terrorism and extremism, the coronavirus pandemic and the risks in the east...
