Al-Qaeda Affiliate Al-Shabab Publishes Article Calling For U.S. To Negotiate With Group And Allow It To Take Over Somalia, As It Did With Taliban In Afghanistan

On July 6, 2023, the Shahada News Agency, the official media outlet of Al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Somalia, Harakat Al-Shabab Al-Mujahideen (Al-Shabab), published an Arabic translation of an article titled “Somalia, A Repeat of Afghanistan?”[1] The