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Taliban’s Participation In Kazan Forum Does Not Mean Its Recognition By Moscow: Envoy

19th May, 2023 · admin

Khaama: Zamir Kabulov, the Russian Presidential Envoy to Afghanistan, said that the Taliban’s participation in the Kazan Forum “absolutely did not mean” its recognition from Russia. The Russian envoy also said that the UN Security Council does not sanction the Taliban delegation that participated in the Russia-Islamic World Kazan forum event.   The Taliban delegation, prohibited

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Posted in Political News, Russia-Afghanistan Relations, Taliban |
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India-Pakistan Fireworks Steal Spotlight at SCO Foreign Ministerial

6th May, 2023 · admin

Michael Hughes AOPNEWS May 5, 2023 Foreign ministers from several states during the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) ministerial firmly expressed concerns over the Taliban’s inability to stem the terrorist tide in Afghanistan, although barbs, some quite vicious, exchanged between India’s top diplomat and his Pakistani counterpart seized the headlines, potentially diluting the impact of the

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Posted in AOP Reports, India-Afghanistan Relations, Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Political News, Russia-Afghanistan Relations, Security, Taliban | Tags: Destabilization of Central Asia, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan |
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Zakharova Says Americans ‘Deliberately’ Left Weapons in Afghanistan

26th April, 2023 · admin

Tolo News: The Russian foreign ministry’s spokesperson, Maria Zakharova, in a press conference claimed that the the US deliberately left weapons in Afghanistan, and “now they are destabilizing the situation because terrorists may get hold of them.” Speaking at the press conference, Zakharova said that “we will not be surprised if these weapons soon surface

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Posted in Russia-Afghanistan Relations, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Destabilization of Central Asia |
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Taliban Foreign Minister Joins Regional Huddle on Afghanistan

13th April, 2023 · admin

Ayaz Gul VOA News April 13, 2023 ISLAMABAD — Uzbekistan is hosting a conference Thursday of foreign ministers of regional countries, including Russia and China, to review the situation and cooperation with Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. The event in the Uzbek city of Samarkand comes as the United Nations reviews its presence in the strife-torn South Asian nation

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Posted in China-Afghanistan Relations, Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Russia-Afghanistan Relations, Taliban, Uzbekistan-Afghanistan Relations |
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Russia, Tajikistan hold military exercises near Afghanistan

4th April, 2023 · admin

Mehr News Agency (Iran): Russia’s most extensive military base is stationed in the cities of Dushanbe and Bokhtar, and according to the agreement signed in October 2012, the military bases in Tajikistan will remain through 2042. The military maneuver came after the security concerns expressed by the Russian envoy and the Collective Security Treaty Organization

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Posted in Central Asia, Russia-Afghanistan Relations, Tajikistan-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Destabilization of Central Asia |
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Russian consulate in Mazar-e-Sharif ‘up and running’: Kabulov

4th April, 2023 · admin

Ariana: Russia’s consulate in northern Mazar-e-Sharif has reopened after almost two years, Russia’s presidential envoy for Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov said Monday. Speaking to Russia’s state-run TASS news agency, Kabulov said Alexey Pereverzev had been appointed as consulate general to the mission in Mazar. Click here to read more (external link). Related Muttaqi confident Taliban will

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Posted in Russia-Afghanistan Relations, Taliban | Tags: Balkh, Mazar-e-Sharif |
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Taliban Sets Up Investment Consortium With Firms From Russia, Iran

22nd February, 2023 · admin

Reuters: Afghanistan’s Taliban-led administration has set up a consortium of companies, including some in Russia, Iran, and Pakistan, to create an investment plan focusing on power, mining, and infrastructure, the acting commerce minister, Nooruddin Azizi, said on February 22. The consortium included 14 Afghan businessmen and the Commerce Ministry had signed a memorandum of understanding

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Posted in Economic News, Iran-Afghanistan Relations, Russia-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Nooruddin Azizi |
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Taliban Refute Russia’s Terror Charges Against Afghanistan

15th February, 2023 · admin

Ayaz Gul VOA News February 15, 2023 ISLAMABAD — The chief diplomat in Afghanistan’s ruling Islamist Taliban has rejected as baseless Russia’s allegations that thousands of Islamic State militants have gathered in northern Afghanistan and threaten the stability of the Central Asian region. “How come thousands of such people are concentrated in one place and still

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Posted in Al-Qaeda, Central Asia, ISIS/DAESH, Russia-Afghanistan Relations, Security, Taliban | Tags: Amir Khan Muttaqi, Destabilization of Central Asia, Taliban Security Failure |
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Afghanistan marks 34th anniversary of Soviet Union’s withdrawal

15th February, 2023 · admin

Khaama: Thirty-four years ago, on February 15, 1989, the last Soviet Soldier crossed the Afghan-Soviet border ending one of the bloodiest wars in the history of Afghanistan. Today, 15 February, has been declared a holiday to mark the anniversary of the withdrawal of former Soviet forces from the country. The former Soviet Union sent thousands

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Posted in History, Russia-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Soviet-Afghan War |
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Regional Actors Paying The Price For Taliban Inability (or Unwillingness) to Contain ISKP

11th February, 2023 · admin

Michael Hughes: The U.S. handed Afghanistan back to the Taliban to end America’s role in the war, knowing full well that doing so would make the country seem even more comfy to jihadist groups. So long as Afghan-based terrorists did not target the U.S. homeland, Washington could care less about other scenarios. If, for instance,

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Posted in ISIS/DAESH, Opinion/Editorial, Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Russia-Afghanistan Relations, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Taliban Security Failure, Taliban vs. ISIS |
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