WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Haqqani network has expanded its reach beyond North Waziristan in Pakistan and provides sanctuary to al-Qaeda and the Afghan Taliban.

Detailed explanation-2: -The main training sites were the al-Faruq camp outside Kandahar, a special facility at Kandahar Airport, and facilities in and near Kabul.

Detailed explanation-3: -After more than a year in power, no foreign nation has officially recognized the Taliban government, although China, Russia, Pakistan and Turkmenistan have accredited Taliban diplomats.

Detailed explanation-4: -Taliban Supreme Leader Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada lives in the city and rarely leaves the Pashtun heartland in southern Afghanistan. Experts say Akhundzada’s decision to relocate the offices of two Taliban spokesmen to Kandahar is part of efforts to tighten his grip on power.

Detailed explanation-5: -It is unclear precisely who had invited Bin Laden to Afghanistan. Most accounts agree that old allies of Bin Laden from the 1980s had invited him – political leaders and commanders who belonged to the four so-called fundamentalist mujahidin parties who had fought in the Afghan-Soviet war.