... country, with unconditional respect for its sovereignty and territorial integrity. The consultations between the members of the tripartite group consisting of the United States, Russia and China set up to more or less coincide with the launch of U.S.–Taliban negotiations proved instrumental in moving the process forward. Russia then pushed for the mechanism to be expanded to the 3-plus format to include Iran and Pakistan, but Washington’s desire to isolate Tehran from the Afghan problem as much as possible meant that the proposal did not have its intended effect.
At the same time, a number of structures have been set up in recent years both inside ...
... promotes this image too, as it describes the Shiites and the “Safavid state” (as it calls the Islamic Republic of Iran) as its main enemy within the Muslim community (ummah).
“Every little bit helps:” who is fighting on the side ... ... Islamic State in Afghanistan and Pakistan?
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Yuri Barmin:
Unislamic Ideology of the Islamic State
Most of the Taliban warlords who swore allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in 2014-2015 were members of the Pakistani branch of the Taliban,...
... intelligence information, testifies to the enhanced efforts of the international community in the fight against the Islamic State (IS).
Iran has been actively involved in this struggle since mid-2014: the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is fighting against ... ... 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 ...
... them with surface-to-air missiles
In these circumstances, Iran is vitally interested in weakening the Americans in Afghanistan, as well as in the resources that could be used for guerrilla warfare against them in the Afghan territory.
Alliance with Iran for the Taliban
Today, the Afghan Taliban are experiencing difficult times. Starting from 2009 international forces have greatly intensified combat operations against armed opposition. The number of land-based operations aimed at capturing and destroying militant ...
