Osama bin Laden’s son, Abdullah, visited Afghanistan in October, 2021 for meetings with the Taliban, according to the latest UN Security Council report on activities of the Islamic State and al-Qaeda and their affiliates, Hindustan Times reports on February 5. “One Member State reported that Bin Laden’s son, Abdallah (not listed), visited Afghanistan in October for meetings with the Taliban. [Current al-Qaeda chief] Aiman al-Zawahiri was reported alive as recently as January 2021, but Member States continue to believe that he is in poor health,” the report said. Al Qaeda in Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), which is led by Osama Mehmood and his ‘deputy’ Atif Yahya Ghouri, “retains a presence in Afghanistan, in the Provinces of Ghazni, Helmand, Kandahar, Nimruz, Paktika and Zabul, where the group fought alongside the Taliban” against the ousted government of Ashraf Ghani. AQIS is estimated to have between 200 and 400 fighters, mainly from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Myanmar and Pakistan, the report said.