According to the Russian Defense Minister, the past year has witnessed a 15% increase in the number of ISIS militants in Central Asia, highlighting Afghanistan as the region’s foremost threat.
Friday, 15 March , 2024Russian presidential envoy to Afghanistan announced that Moscow has documents showing that the United States is seeking relations with anti-Taliban armed groups and secretly supports the activities of ISIS.
Saturday, 28 January , 2023Udalbi Shkagoshev, a member of the Security and Anti-Corruption Commission of the Russian Duma, stated that the US arms aid to Ukraine had created a new black market for arms in Europe.
Saturday, 14 January , 2023Ariana News Agency: The Russian Embassy in Washington declared: “Trillion dollars were wasted from American taxpayers and the American military campaign for Afghanistan was a tragedy.”
Friday, 2 September , 2022Ariana News Agency: Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said the United States was exacerbating the humanitarian crisis in the country by freezing Afghanistan’s national assets.
Saturday, 19 February , 2022Ariana News Agency: A Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman expressed concern at the outbreak of protests over “ethnic” issues in northern Afghanistan.
Saturday, 22 January , 2022Ariana News Agency: Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman has denied reports about sending weapons to the Taliban Resistance Front in Afghanistan’s Panjshir province.
Wednesday, 19 January , 2022Ariana News Agency: AbdulQahar Balkhi; A Taliban foreign ministry spokesman said in a Twitter message that the Taliban-led government appreciated Vladimir Putin’s recent remarks.
Tuesday, 4 January , 2022Ariana News Agency: The Secretary of the Security Council of Russia said that Afghanistan is still the largest producer of opium in the world.
Saturday, 13 November , 2021Russia has rejected as “baseless” accusations that it offered Taliban-linked militants rewards to kill US and other Nato troops in Afghanistan.
Sunday, 28 June , 2020Russia and China have started making the case at the United Nations against Washington’s claim that it can trigger a return of all sanctions on Iran at the Security Council, with Moscow invoking a 50-year-old international legal opinion to argue against the move.
Wednesday, 10 June , 2020Saudi Arabia and Russia are firmly committed to achieving oil market stability and expediting a rebalancing of the market, the energy ministers of the two countries said in a joint statement on Wednesday.
Saturday, 16 May , 2020Saudi Arabia has sharply criticized Russia over what it described as Moscow blaming the kingdom for the collapse in global energy prices.
Saturday, 4 April , 2020Russia and Saudi Arabia, two of the world’s biggest oil producers, are each making a bet that they are better placed than the other to bear the pain of the oil price war.
Sunday, 15 March , 2020Russia fears an escalation between Iran and Israel and wants to avoid it at any cost.
Sunday, 2 February , 2020It’s heretical to say so, but Russia has earned its current success in the Middle East. It’s using the same mix of military and diplomatic tools that made the United States dominant in the region for so many decades. America didn’t lose this battle for influence; it surrendered.
Monday, 28 October , 2019The leaders of Russia, Iran and Turkey announced Monday that they agreed to form a committee tasked with rewriting Syria’s constitution as part of a political solution to the country’s civil war, now in its ninth year.
Tuesday, 17 September , 2019The Russian state directed and ran the military coup in Crimea and its subsequent annexation in 2014, Ukraine has told the European court of human rights.
Saturday, 14 September , 2019The head of Iran’s aerospace sector has announced new offers to purchase fighter jets from Russia and China, two countries supporting the Islamic republic as the United States tried to sever its international ties.
Sunday, 1 September , 2019Russia is calling on the authorities of Afghanistan and the international coalition to step up the struggle against terrorists in the country, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a commentary following a terrorist attack at a wedding in Kabul.
Monday, 19 August , 2019