Taliban and al Qaeda Remain Linked, U.N. Study Says

WASHINGTON—A United Nations report issued Monday observed that Afghanistan’s Taliban has maintained shut ties with al Qaeda, keeping at minimum 6 large-amount meetings with leaders of the group in the course of a lot more than a year of talks with the United States.

The U.N. findings issue to the problem confronted by the Taliban in implementing its aspect of the arrangement signed with the U.S. in February. Underneath the phrases, the U.S. will withdraw all its troops within 14 months in return for a Taliban guarantee that Afghanistan will never yet again grow to be…