KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan is claiming it has killed a top al-Qaida propagandist on an FBI most-wanted list during an operation in the country’s east. The reported killing of Husam Abd al-Rauf risks threatening peace talks between the Taliban and the Afghan government. It also threatens to plunge this nation beset by decades of war into further chaos as the U.S. works to withdraw its forces. However, details over the raid that led to al-Rauf’s alleged death remain murky. The FBI, the U.S. military and NATO did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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Afghan men bury a victim of Saturday suicide attack that targeted education center, in Kabul Afghanistan, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2020. Afghan authorities have raised the death toll from Saturday's suicide bombing on an education center in Kabul to two dozen killed mostly schoolchildren, as hundreds of people gathered for funerals or awaited word of loved ones outside hospitals and morgues. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)
Posted at 12:37 AM, Oct 25, 2020
and last updated 2020-10-25 10:34:37-04
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