{"id":12163,"date":"2025-06-13T03:15:47","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T22:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=12163"},"modified":"2025-06-13T03:15:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T22:45:47","slug":"afghan-ambassador-to-italy-there-is-a-bigger-threat-than-9-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/afghan-ambassador-to-italy-there-is-a-bigger-threat-than-9-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan ambassador to Italy: There is a bigger threat than 9\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12164\" src=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/afg-itl-safir.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Afghanistan&#8217;s ambassador to Italy, Khalid Zakaria, warned of the active presence of more than 26 terrorist groups in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, saying there was a possibility of a larger attack than 9\/11 in Europe or the United States.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Zakaria called Afghanistan a &#8220;haven for global terrorism&#8221; and said the Taliban and al-Qaeda had become closer, while ISIS Khorasan was present in northern and southern Afghanistan. He added that groups such as the Tajik Taliban and Boko Haram are also active.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>&#8220;The Taliban have never been moderate and do not believe in universal values \u200b\u200band international order,&#8221; he said, referring to the Taliban&#8217;s ideological structure.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>He said the Afghan embassy in Italy continues to refuse to cooperate with the Taliban and provides limited consular services despite restrictions; But the embassy&#8217;s documents are invalid in the eyes of the Taliban<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan&#8217;s ambassador to Italy, Khalid Zakaria, warned of the active presence of more than 26 terrorist groups in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, saying there was a possibility of a larger attack than 9\/11 in Europe or the United States. Zakaria called Afghanistan a &#8220;haven for global terrorism&#8221; and said the Taliban and al-Qaeda had become closer, while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12164,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12165,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12163\/revisions\/12165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}