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Al Qaeda’s past ties to the recently empowered Taliban have the potential of making Afghanistan a safe haven for extremists, and “terrorist groups enjoy greater freedom there than at any time in recent history,” United Nations experts said in a report circulated Monday. In the wide-ranging report, the experts also said extremists linked to both Al Qaeda and the Islamic State group are successfully advancing in Africa, especially in the turbulent Sahel. And they said the IS continues to operate “as an entrenched rural insurgency” in Iraq and Syria, where its so-called caliphate ruled a signific…