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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,...
al-Qaeda vs ISIS In late April 2015, the media reported that the leaders of Islamic State (IS) and Taliban declared jihad against each other. Earlier, there had been violent clashes between supporters of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and Jabhat al-Nusra leader Abu Mohammad al-Julani, who refused to swear allegiance to the future caliph. Given the ...
... activity in Afghanistan in January necessitates enhancing joint action against the Islamic State not only with the countries of Central Asia (e.g. Turkmenistan, which requested military assistance from the US), but even with such odious structures as Taliban, with whom Washington is carrying out consultations as well. Finally, reports of a possible allegiance of the Caucasus Emirate to ISIS substantiate the threats of al-Baghdadi’s fellow-fighters against Azerbaijan and Russia, which have so ...
... Pakistani armed forces, the terrorists were not planning on taking any hostages; their objective was to kill as many people as possible. Media reports confirm this, with more than 100 people being executed within the first two hours of the siege. Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (Taliban Movement of Pakistan, TTP) have claimed responsibility for the attack. According to a TTP representative, the attackers were instructed to kill the older pupils. The reality, however, was that they killed indiscriminately. The ...
At last count the carnage in Peshawar that took place on December 16th 2014 resulted in the deaths of nine teachers and 132 children, a total of 141 and still counting. The incongruous thing is that the word “Talibaan” means “students”. How can those who kill our schoolchildren be called Talibaan? They should be called devils (Shaitans). The perverted ideology of such animals has nothing to do with Islam and those who massacred our innocents cannot claim to be Muslims. Were...
... five years. Pakistan is in the midst of several violent internal conflicts. Near the border with Afghanistan, in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) province, U.S. and Pakistani security forces are fighting the Taliban, Al Qaeda and other militant groups. In the southwest, in Balochistan province, Baloch nationalist-separatists are battling Pakistani security forces. In the southeast, in the capital of Sindh province, Karachi, members of ethnic-based political ...
The press has received information that the Iranian authorities and the Afghan movement Taliban intend to enter into a tactical alliance against the common enemy – the United States. What can be this cooperation? Are both sides interested in it? Can this alliance of two U.S. adversaries alter the balance of power in the region? It ...
... is who power in Afghanistan will belong to after the withdrawal of the coalition forces. Today’s government with its overcentralized power structure has little chance to survive: it seems that wider range of various political forces including the Taliban and its allies will have a share in it. Now all the actors on the Afghan political scene recognize that negotiations with insurgents and their integration in the political process are extremely necessary. For that the Taliban has to meet three ...
Why the Taliban Has Not Yet Been Defeated? Today not the least of the factors of the Afghan political life and the whole region is the activity of the Afghan resistance forces of the Taliban. Despite the ten-year-long struggle of the International Security ...
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| U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity |
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| U.S. wants to dissolve Russia |
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| U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China |
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