..., Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Chief, General Faiz Hameed, was seen sipping coffee at the Serena Hotel in Kabul. A news channel reporter captured this moment on video and asked, “Will you be meeting with the senior leaders of the Taliban?” The then-Director General (DG) of ISI replied: “No, I am not sure,” pointing to then-Pakistan Ambassador to Afghanistan, Mansoor Ahmed Khan, saying “Maybe he will arrange it.” The journalist followed up, asking: “What do you hope ...
... potential for this country to become a stage for a global conflict
For several decades, Afghanistan has been a source of threats and risks, including those of a terrorist and extremist nature, for the broader Central Eurasian region. That said, since the Taliban [
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] swept to power in August 2021, security in Afghanistan has significantly improved, a fact that is now almost universally recognized. Nevertheless, it is also necessary to acknowledge that the lingering uncertainty about future developments ...
Report No. 85 / 2023
Report No. 85 / 2023
The Taliban’s (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation) rise to power in Afghanistan in August 2021 and the conflict in Ukraine have both had an impact on regional trends in the Middle East. This report sheds light on the transformation ...
Report No. 80/2022
Report No. 80/2022
The report by RIAC and Peking University’s Institute for International and Strategic Studies on Russian-Chinese cooperation in ensuring security in Afghanistan provides a general assessment of the security situation in the country following the withdrawal of U.S. forces in August 2021. This report highlights Moscow and Beijing’s interests in supporting stability in Afghanistan, as well as the means of ensuring and protecting it. The authors analyze in detail...
Afghanistan is an issue on which China, Russia and the US can find common language
The Taliban’s return to power has fundamentally changed the political environment of Afghanistan, both internally and externally. The internal leading forces inside Afghanistan have turned to be the Taliban instead of the political forces represented by ...
The international community may benefit from Russia’s experience in promoting domestic consensus in Afghanistan
It has been some three months since the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, precipitously and without large-scale bloodshed. This came as a complete surprise for the global community—but for the Taliban just as well, although this was what they had long been striving for. Perhaps, this could ...
The value of any potential deal with the Taliban is apparently not entirely clear to Russia, China or any of the Central Asian countries
The value of any potential deal with the Taliban is apparently not entirely clear to Russia, China or any of the Central Asian countries. As a rule, they ...
... the expert, statistics from recent years show that annual assistance to Afghanistan amounts to about five billion US dollars, but this sum is not enough to satisfy the needs of the country’s population
Afghanistan may face a food crisis under the Taliban (outlawed in Russia) rule because this movement is under sanctions of both individual states and the United Nations, Andrei Kortunov, Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council, told TASS on Monday.
"A food crisis and famine ...
Restrictive measures against the Taliban now affect the country as a whole
The fall of the Afghan government amid the withdrawal of American troops and the capture of most of Afghanistan by the Taliban raised a number of questions regarding international and unilateral sanctions. Since ...
Having overcome the formerly heated rejections by the Taliban of its proposed role at the airport, Turkey portends the closer integration of Afghanistan into its familiar geopolitical agendas
The Taliban’s ultimate
agreement
to a prominent Turkish security presence at Afghanistan’s only airport completes ...
