Afghanistan excluded from US Security Threat List despite Alleged ISIS Presence

The U.S. National Intelligence Agency recently published its annual threat assessment, notably omitting Afghanistan from the list of national security threats. Last year’s report highlighted Afghanistan and the Taliban multiple times, but this year’s report made no mention of them, raising concerns about the current U.S. assessment of regional security.

While the report highlighted terrorist threats, including Al-Qaeda’s presence in Iran, Somalia, and Syria, it did not mention the Taliban-controlled...