The nation's top counter-terrorism officials said they were concerned about terror threats emerging from Afghanistan following chaotic U.S. pullout.
who agreed that terrorist groups operating in Afghanistan posed mostly a regional threat.
“We are concerned that, with developments in Afghanistan — among other things — that there will be more inspiration” to act, Wray said. Much of the hearing focused on the threat posed to the U.S. by terrorist groups operating in Afghanistan. Following the Sept. 11 attacks, the U.S. and its allies drove the Taliban from power. Two decades later, President Biden announced in April that the U.S. would leave Afghanistan.
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