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The Taliban's 2020 Doha Agreement commitments to deny Afghan soil to transnational terrorist organizations have been repeatedly and publicly contradicted by events on the ground. From Ayman al-Zawahiri's presence in a Taliban state guesthouse in Kabul to the rapid battlefield return of roughly 5,000 released Taliban prisoners who had given written assurances against doing so.
A new Jamestown Foundation assessment adds fresh evidence to this pattern, documenting how Syria's crackdown on foreign terrorists is now driving thousands of fighters toward Afghanistan, where Taliban-controlled sanctuaries and an entrenched terrorist ecosystem await them.