The Al-Qaida leader, Aiman Muhammed Rabi al-Zawahiri is not sending people or money to affiliates and finds it very hard to communicate with them.
“While the Al-Qaida core knows that it cannot leave the area, it remains hopeful that the Taliban will be successful and that it can ‘piggyback’ on that success,” it said.
The report said that ISIS is struggling financially in Afghanistan, where it has resorted to extortion of the local population and has had to stop paying its fighters at times but the lack of funds has not impacted its ambition.
