Afghanistan Crisis: Security Problems for Russia and Central Asian States

The growing instability in Afghanistan provides ISIS with an opportunity to regain a territorial base it had lost in the Middle East The article was originally ... ... involvement in the 1999 Batken Conflict in Kyrgyzstan under the CIS Collective Security Treaty. During that mini-war, members of the Al-Qaeda-related Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, a terrorist group, attempted to break through into their native country following ...