Pentagon chief: al-Qaida may seek comeback in Afghanistan

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says the al-Qaida extremist radical that utilized Afghanistan arsenic a staging basal to onslaught United States 20 years agone whitethorn effort to regenerate determination pursuing an American withdrawal that has near the Taliban successful power.

“That’s the quality of the organization,” helium told a tiny radical of reporters successful Kuwait City astatine the decision of a four-day circuit of Persian Gulf states.

He said the United States is prepared to forestall an al-Qaida comeback that would endanger the United States.