On Monday, President Joe Biden announced that Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed in a US drone strike in Afghanistan on July 31. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the Taliban "grossly" violated the Trump-era Doha agreement by hosting and sheltering the al-Qaeda leader in Kabul.
"It was one of the leaders of al-Qaeda. Al-Qaeda is fairly well represented in Afghanistan right now. And my office is doing everything it can to encourage the Taliban to disassociate themselves from Al-Qaeda," Voronkov told journalists.
The Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021, shortly before US troops withdrew from the country.
* A terrorist organization banned in Russia