Taliban Spokesman Qari Yousaf Ahmadi: 'More Than Half Of... Afghanistan is Under Mujahideen Control; NATO and the U.S. Troops Are Our Captives'

The Urdu-language website of the Islamic Emirate (the Taliban's shadow government in the country) recently published an interview with Taliban spokesman Qari Yousaf Ahmadi, in which he claimed that more than half of Afghanistan is under Taliban control. The interview was conducted by the Arabic-language magazine Muheet.

In the interview, Ahmadi argued that the U.S. and the Afghan government have tried unsuccessfully to sow division among the Taliban with the lure of talks, but that the Taliban and the U.S. have never negotiated on the future of Afghanistan. ...