Editing Taliban (section)

===Resurgence===
By 2020, after [[Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant]] had lost almost all of its conquered territory and committed less terrorist acts, the global think tank called the Institute for Economics & Peace considered the Taliban to have overtaken ISIL as the most dangerous terrorist group in the world due to their recent campaigns for territorial expansion.

On 29 May 2020, it was reported that Mullah Omar's son Mullah [[Mohammad Yaqoob]] was now acting as leader of the Taliban after numerous Quetta Shura members were infected with COVID-19. It was previously confirmed on 7 May 2020 that Yaqoob had become head of the Taliban military commission, making him the insurgents' military chief. Among those infected in the Quetta Shura, which continued to hold in-person meetings, were Hibatullah Akhundzada and Sirajuddin Haqqani, then commanders of the Taliban and Haqqani network respectively.

In September 2020, the US government and several Taliban spokesmen negotiated in Doha, Qatar to bring the Afghanistan War to an end, under the conditions that NATO withdraw its forces in Afghanistan as well as al-Qaeda not using areas under Taliban control as bases. The Agreement was supported by the governments of China, Russia, and Pakistan, with India welcoming the pact, and was unanimously endorsed by the UN Security Council, however, the Afghan government was not involved.