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

WASHINGTON—A United Nations report issued Monday discovered that Afghanistan’s Taliban has preserved shut ties with al Qaeda, holding at minimum 6 significant-amount conferences with leaders of the team in the course of additional than a year of talks with the United States.

The U.N. findings point to the issues faced by the Taliban in employing its facet of the arrangement signed with the U.S. in February. Below the terms, the U.S. will withdraw all its troops within just fourteen months in return for a Taliban ensure that Afghanistan will hardly ever once again come to be…