India, Aug. 14 -- A United Nations Security Council (UNSC) monitoring team has officially linked the deadly November 2025 car bomb attack near Delhi's Red Fort to Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS). The finding appears in the 38th report of the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team, submitted to the Security Council's ISIL (Da'esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee.

The report, covering developments through mid-2026 and published earlier this week, states, "Al-Qaida in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS, not listed) continued to evolve from a fragmented group into a regional terrorist entity; it established logistics and financial networks, working in decentralised small, scattered cells instead of large units. The attack in...