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CNN’s Clarissa Ward reports that, according to a Taliban source, Islamic State members are “melting” into the Taliban:
Taliban source: ISIS-K militants are pretending to be Taliban, posing a new danger @clarissaward reports pic.twitter.com/QIRZ0h1G2o
For the first time since 2001 there are no American troops in Afghanistan after the United States completed the evacuation of most of its citizens and thousands of at-risk Afghans.
Reuters has compiled this explainer on what happens now:
