Taliban Jihadists Demand Recognition from TrumpFrances Martel 9 Apr 2025
The Taliban’s top diplomat urged President Donald Trump to accept the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan and “engage” with it during a recent visit to Saudi Arabia, the Afghan outlet Tolo News reported on Monday.
“Foreign Affairs Minister” Amir Khan Muttaqi, in Jeddah to strengthen ties with the Saudi government despite its lack of formal recognition of the Taliban, reportedly threatened that any “insecurity” in Afghanistan would destabilize the entire world and indicated that the Taliban jihadist junta was America’s best bet for a stable, long-term partner in the country.
Muttaqi’s remarks are part of a greater campaign for the world to legitimize the Taliban, the jihadist terrorist organization that has governed Afghanistan uncontestedly for nearly four years. Taliban jihadists controlled the country for much of the 1990s until the post-September 11 American invasion in late 2001, after which they engaged in a two-decade-long insurgency against the legitimate, U.S.-backed government.
That government fell in August 2021 as a result of former President Joe Biden violating an agreement that Trump had signed with the group during his first term that would have seen the exit of American troops from the country on May 1 of that year; Biden announced an extension of the end of the war through September 2021. The Taliban responded to that violation by launching a pervasive terror campaign against the weak Afghan military, which collapsed. Then-President Ashraf Ghani fled Kabul almost immediately after Taliban terrorists reached the capital on August 15, 2021.
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