The Taliban has selected a designated terrorist, who the U.S. government has placed a $5 million bounty on, to be Afghanistan’s new interior minister.
Sirajuddin Haqqani “is head of the militant group known as the Haqqani network who are affiliated with the Taliban and have been behind some of the deadliest attacks in the country’s two-decade-long war – including a truck bomb explosion in Kabul in 2017 that killed more than 150 people,” the BBC reported. “Unlike the wider Taliban, the Haqqani network has been designated a foreign terrorist organization by the US. It also maintains close ties to al-Qaeda.”
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