Al Jazeera: Russia is seeking to re-assert itself as a major player in Afghanistan – For keen observers of Russian foreign policy, it was clear that the conference was not more than a photo-op meant to publicly declare the Kremlin’s ambition to re-assert itself in the southern part of Central Asia and Afghanistan in particular. Click here
Ayaz Gul VOA News November 12, 2018 ISLAMABAD — Russia said Monday the Taliban has secretly held 10 rounds of talks with the United States, other than the officially announced recent contact between the two sides in Qatar on how to end the war in Afghanistan. There have been only two publicly known meetings U.S. officials
Tolo News: A splinter faction of the Taliban, led by Mullah Abdul Manan Niazi, said on Sunday the recent Moscow meeting on peace in Afghanistan was a “lie”.But officials from Afghanistan High Peace Council (HPC) said Friday’s Moscow meeting was an important platform towards building peace in Afghanistan and that the peace facilitating body is optimistic
Charles Maynes VOA News November 9, 2018 MOSCOW — Russia hosted a group of Afghan government-linked envoys along with their Taliban rivals Friday, as the Kremlin waded into efforts to end a 17-year conflict where Western efforts have repeatedly failed. “Russia stands for preserving the one and undivided Afghanistan, in which all of the ethnic groups
Press TV November 5, 2018 An Afghan delegation will attend international talks on the war-torn country, which are scheduled to be held in the Russia capital Moscow this month. The spokesman for the High Peace Council, Sayed Ihsan Taheri, said on Monday that the council would send four representatives to the meeting, which will focus
Reuters: The invitations, extended over the past two months by Russian diplomats in Kabul, were confirmed to Reuters by six of the eight leaders, who include former Afghan President Hamid Karzai, or their aides, and by other leading politicians with ties to the Afghan government. Atta Mohammad Noor, a leader in the Jamiat-i Islami party and
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan November 3, 2018 An official in Kabul says Afghan authorities “have not yet” decided about sending a delegation to international talks Russia plans to host next week on the Afghan peace process. “Our discussions on this topic are still ongoing. We have not yet reached an agreement with Russia about how
1TV: Russia said on Saturday that Afghan President Ashraf Ghani had agreed to send a delegation of peace officials to a multinational conference in Moscow on coming Friday that will be attended also by the Taliban. The meeting was previously postponed by Russia after the Afghan government turned down the invitation on the grounds that peace
Business Insider: By the mid-1980s, the Soviet war in Afghanistan had reached something of a stalemate. To turn the tide, the US introduced Stinger anti-aircraft missiles to erode Soviet control of the air. In the years since, the Stingers and US policy in Afghanistan have become a headache, but CIA personnel involved in the Stinger program
VOA News Jeff Seldin September 1, 2018 Russia is not giving up on efforts to destabilize Afghanistan and drive divisions between the United States and its coalition partners, according to the outgoing commander of U.S. forces in the country. The commander of U.S. Forces-Afghanistan and of Operation Resolute Support, General John Nicholson, is scheduled to