Afghanistan: Taliban spokesman, tells the Akhbar news agency there is no Oath of Allegiance with al-Qaeda

A new video has been published in the media in which Suhail Shahin, a Taliban spokesman, tells the Akhbar news agency that there is no bay’ah (no oath of allegiance) between al-Qaeda and the Taliban .    It’s necessary to remind and enlight that al-Qaeda and its affiliates have publicly and repeatedly swore allegiance to the Taliban leader. In this statement, for example, Ayman Mohammed Rabi al-Zawahiri, the 2nd emir of al-Qaeda, swears allegiance to former Taliban leader Akhtar Mansur and current leader Khibatullah Akhundzade. This is a statement by the head of the Taliban, Mullah Akhtar Mansour, in…