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The situation in Afghanistan has continued to deteriorate in recent years, and Russia has been following the developments in this country with alarm. This was the conclusion of leading Russian experts on Afghanistan who took part in the roundtable “Development of ...
A meeting of the ambassadorial Russia–NATO Council (RNC) held on 20 April at the suggestion of NATO after a long break. There are two issues on the agenda – Ukraine and Afghanistan. It’s not clear, however, why this should be the venue for a dialogue on the crisis in Ukraine and in Afghanistan. The point of this meeting in NATO’s eyes is once again to present Russia with the consolidated position of the alliance’s ...
Leaving or staying? In 2015, a number of NATO members decided to continue their military involvement in Afghan affairs. Two agreements on cooperation in the field of security and defense, signed on September 30, 2014 between Afghanistan, on the one hand and the US and NATO, on the other, constituted the legal basis for these operations. Both agreements entered into force on January 1, 2015. Furthermore, on December 12, 2014, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution ...
In one of the biggest military engagement USA is involved in after second world war is in Afghanistan. The War in Afghanistan began on 7 October 2001, as the armed forces of the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, France, and the Afghan United Front (Northern Alliance) launched Operation Enduring Freedom. Following the September ...
What does the appointment of Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour as the Supreme Commander of the Taliban in Afghanistan mean? What could it lead to? The Taliban was founded by Mullah Mohammed Omar, who also served as Head of the Supreme Council of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001. Mullah Omar could hardly claim supreme leadership, but at ...
Several Possible Lines of Regional Cooperation The official end of the West’s military campaign in Afghanistan has been followed by the start of another mission in the country, which held presidential elections in 2014 but where the situation seems to be deteriorating ever faster. Other actors are becoming more visible and seem strong enough to shatter ...
On 24 June 2015, the Russian International Affairs Council held a club meeting at which former Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai spoke. The event was attended by representatives of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, RIAC members and leading experts on the Middle East. The club meeting was opened by RIAC President Igor Ivanov. In his speech,...
On June 25, 2015, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) will hold a press conference with former President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai at the press centre of the International Information Agency Rossiya Segodnya. The withdrawal of coalition forces from Afghanistan in 2014 was supposed to symbolize the qualitative improvement of the security situation in the country,...
On 28-30 April 2015 president Ashraf Ghani of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan paid an official visit to the Republic of India. The visit was the subject of considerable attention. The thing was that after becoming the new president of Afghanistan at the end of last September Ashraf Ghani was in no hurry to visit India,...
... tensions among the populations of post-Soviet countries [3] , economic problems, corruption, cronyism, and other factors, it is difficult to seriously discuss their effective ability to counter the threats of extremism and terrorism that emanate from Afghanistan. Of all the Central Asian states, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan appear to be the most vulnerable in this respect, due to their proximity to Afghanistan, setting aside for a moment the fact that these two former Soviet republics have porous borders ...
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| U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China |
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