Al Qaeda forces in Afghanistan are attempting a comeback according to new reports. After the war with the U.S. it seemed that the organization was diminished but have since regrouped in the mountainous area of the country. U.S. commanders have intensified strikes against al-Qaida cells to leave them so battered that they do not pose a threat to anyone. Western troops have begun to leave the area but some Americans will remain to ensure the terror group doesn’t gain too much power. Read more below.
President Barack Obama said his administration had turned the tide of war. “The goal that I set – to defeat al-Qaida, and deny it a chance to rebuild – is within reach,” he said. As things stand, however, an unquestionably weakened al-Qaida appears to have preserved at least limited means of regenerating inside Afghanistan as U.S. influence in the country wanes. The last U.S. combat troops are scheduled to be gone by Dec. 31, 2014, and security matters turned over to the Afghan government. “They are trying to increase their numbers and take advantage of the Americans leaving,” the police chief of Paktika province, Gen. Dawlat Khan Zadran, said through a translator in an interview this month in the governor’s compound. He mentioned no numbers, but said al-Qaida has moved more weapons across the border from Pakistan.
