"Since seizing Kabul on Sunday, the Taliban have presented a more moderate face, saying they want peace, will not take revenge against old enemies and will respect the rights of women within the framework of Islamic law. But Dr Hans-Jakob Schindler...

"[Sir Ivor] Roberts, a senior adviser at the Counter Extremism Project, a non-profit network that researches extremist groups, said he was surprised at the move. 'I thought from the PR point of view, the Taliban was being a bit smarter than that,' he...

"Worse, the fear is, in the age of 'over the horizon' counterterrorism, those threats will intensify. The notion that Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan is eliminated is 'dangerously mistaken,' says Nathan Sales, former ambassador at large for Counterterrorism...

CEP Senior Director Hans-Jakob Schindler writes: "Despite the Taliban’s assurances, recent reports emphasise that they remain closely aligned with al-Qaeda and a range of al-Qaeda affiliated terror groups operating in Afghanistan. The Taliban have...

"'One of the main problems was that you were unable to get the resources out of the country without a private army to secure them against the Taliban,' said Hans-Jakob Schindler, senior director at the Counter Extremism Project."

"'These resources were in the ground in the 90s too and they [the Taliban] weren't able to extract them," Hans-Jakob Schindler, senior director at the Counter Extremism Project, told DW. 'One has to remain very skeptical of their ability to grow the...

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler's op-ed republished: "Still, we must remember these are the same extremists who imposed one of the world’s strictest interpretations of Islamic jurisprudence for over half a decade."

"Roberts, who’s president of the Counter Extremism Project, a non-profit network that researches extremist groups, said he was surprised at the move. 'I thought from the PR point of view, the Taliban was being a bit smarter than that,' he said."

"Roberts, a senior adviser at the Counter Extremism Project, a non-profit network that researches extremist groups, said he was surprised at the move. 'I thought from the PR point of view, the Taliban was being a bit smarter than that,' he said."

"Roberts, a senior adviser at the Counter Extremism Project, a non-profit network that researches extremist groups, said he was surprised at the move. 'I thought from the PR point of view, the Taliban was being a bit smarter than that,' he said."