Al-Qaeda returns to Afghanistan

Al-Qaeda returns to Afghanistan amid fears of new jihadist alliance with Isis and Taliban | Asia | News | The Independent: 
American officials had been dismissive of reports about al-Qaeda’s growing presence. That changed recently with the sobering acknowledgment by Major General Jeff Buchanan, the deputy chief of US forces in the country: “If you go back to last year, there were a lot of intelligence estimates that said within Afghanistan al-Qaeda probably has 50 to 100 members, but then, just in this one camp we found more than 150. To find al-Qaeda back in Afghanistan was quite troubling.”