Death of al-Qaeda leader in Kabul puts the Taliban on notice
The killing of Ayman al-Zawahiri exposes tensions among Afghanistan’s rulers.
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Shiraz Maher
Shiraz Maher is a contributing writer to the New Statesman.
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