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Following Attack On Foreign Tourists, Russia Warns Citizens Not To Travel To Afghanistan

22nd May, 2024 · admin

Afghanistan International: The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has “strongly” urged its citizens to avoid traveling to Afghanistan due to an attack on foreign tourists in the country. In a statement, the ministry expressed concern over “terrorist attacks” on foreign tourists in Afghanistan. On Friday evening, May 17, armed assailants attacked foreign tourists and their

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Posted in Economic News, Russia-Afghanistan Relations, Security, Travel | Tags: Taliban Security Failure, Tourism |
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Russia Inches Toward Marriage Of Convenience With Taliban In Terror Fight

5th May, 2024 · admin

Michael Scollon Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty May 5, 2024 Shortly after the Taliban seized power, Russia addressed the question of whether it was time to review the militant group’s status as a terrorist organization. “It is very important to see what the Taliban’s first steps in governing Afghanistan will be like,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov

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Posted in ISIS/DAESH, Russia-Afghanistan Relations, Security, Taliban | Tags: Taliban Security Failure, Taliban vs. ISIS |
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Why is Russia Striving to Remove the Taliban from the List of Terrorist Organizations?

4th April, 2024 · admin

8am: Russians believe that the Taliban group is a more reliable ally than the West in the fight against ISIS. This perception stems from decades of geopolitical competition between Russia and Western countries and a longstanding game initiated by America, using Islamist hardline groups to undermine its global rivals, especially the former Soviet Union. The

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Posted in ISIS/DAESH, Opinion/Editorial, Political News, Russia-Afghanistan Relations, Taliban | Tags: Taliban vs. ISIS, US aiding ISIS |
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Russia planning to remove Taliban from terrorist list

2nd April, 2024 · admin

Ariana: Russia is considering removing the Islamic Emirate [Taliban] from Moscow’s list of terrorist organizations, but the final decision must be made by the country’s top political leadership. The IEA [Taliban] was recognized in Russia as a terrorist organization in 2003, after it was included in the UN Security Council’s list. Russia has discussed the

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Posted in Russia-Afghanistan Relations, Taliban |
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Regional Governments Seen Struggling to Control IS-Khorasan

29th March, 2024 · admin

By VOA Afghan Service March 29, 2024 WASHINGTON — Last week’s concert hall massacre in Russia demonstrates not only the capacity of Islamic State-Khorasan to stage complex attacks beyond its base in South-Central Asia, but also the inability of the Taliban and regional countries to counter its threats, experts say. The Islamic State group claimed the attack

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Posted in Iran-Afghanistan Relations, ISIS/DAESH, Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Russia-Afghanistan Relations, Security, Tajikistan-Afghanistan Relations, Taliban | Tags: Taliban Security Failure, Taliban vs. ISIS |
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Tajikistan Detains Several People In Connection With Deadly Moscow Attack

29th March, 2024 · admin

By RFE/RL’s Tajik Service March 29, 2024 DUSHANBE — Tajik authorities detained nine people this week in connection with the March 22 deadly attack on a concert hall near Moscow, local media reported on March 29, citing a security source. All nine were reportedly detained by the state security service in the Vahdat district in Dushanbe outskirts on

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Posted in ISIS/DAESH, Russia-Afghanistan Relations, Tajikistan-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Destabilization of Central Asia, US aiding ISIS |
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Central Asians in Russia Face Backlash After IS-K Terror Attack

27th March, 2024 · admin

By Navbahor Imamova VOA News March 27, 2024 WASHINGTON — Russian media and analysts are reporting a spike in hate crimes and violence against migrants from Central Asia following last week’s terror attack on a Moscow concert hall, which has led to the arrests of seven people of Tajik origin. Responsibility for the attack, which killed at

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Posted in Central Asia, ISIS/DAESH, Russia-Afghanistan Relations, Security, Tajikistan-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Destabilization of Central Asia |
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Moscow Claims Washington Supports Daesh, Al-Qaeda

26th March, 2024 · admin

Tolo News: Maria Zakharova, the spokesperson for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in an article for Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper said that Daesh has targeted opponents of the United States, including the “Taliban,” in recent years. In the article, Maria Zakharova accused the United States of supporting Al-Qaeda and Daesh. “Oddly enough, ISIS has adjusted

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Posted in Al-Qaeda, ISIS/DAESH, Russia-Afghanistan Relations, Security, Taliban | Tags: US aiding ISIS |
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US forces were not fighting terrorism in Afghanistan: Lavrov

25th March, 2024 · admin

Ariana: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has claimed that American forces, during their 20 years presence in Afghanistan, were not fighting terrorism, adding they created organizations which later became al-Qaeda. “They created agencies and organisations there, which later became al-Qaeda. Then they began to use it to punish and provoke undesirable regimes in the Middle

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Posted in Al-Qaeda, ISIS/DAESH, Russia-Afghanistan Relations, Security, US-Afghanistan Relations |
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A Look at IS-Khorasan — Group Believed to Be Behind Moscow Attack

24th March, 2024 · admin

Jeff Seldin VOA News March 24, 2024 The United States is assigning responsibility for Friday’s attack on a Moscow concert hall that killed more than 130 people on the Islamic State terror group’s Afghan affiliate, known as Islamic State-Khorasan, or IS-Khorasan. A State Department official confirmed to VOA that the U.S. gathered intelligence suggesting IS-Khorasan

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Posted in ISIS/DAESH, Russia-Afghanistan Relations, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Destabilization of Central Asia, Taliban Security Failure |
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