{"id":68824,"date":"2025-05-02T16:20:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T16:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/68824\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T16:20:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T16:20:19","slug":"russia-says-it-will-help-taliban-fight-islamic-state-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/68824\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia says it will help Taliban fight Islamic State in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russia will help the Taliban authorities in Afghanistan fight against the Afghan branch of Islamic State, Moscow’s special representative for the country was quoted as saying on Friday (May 2).<\/p>\n

Zamir Kabulov, a former Russian ambassador to Afghanistan, referred to Islamic State Khorasan (ISIS-K) as the “common enemy” of Moscow and Kabul.<\/p>\n

“We see and appreciate the efforts that the Taliban are making in the fight against the Afghan wing of ISIS,” Kabulov told the RIA state news agency in an interview.<\/p>\n

“We will provide our best assistance to the authorities of (Afghanistan) through specialised structures.”<\/p>\n

No country currently recognises the Taliban government that seized power in August 2021 as US-led forces staged a chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan after 20 years of war.<\/p>\n

But in a step towards recognition, Russia last month formally removed the Taliban from its list of terrorist organisations, to which it had been added in 2003.<\/p>\n

Kabulov’s comments underscore the dramatic rapprochement in recent years between Moscow and Kabul, which President Vladimir Putin said last year was now Russia’s “ally” in combating terrorism.<\/p>\n

Russia has been left reeling from multiple Islamic State-linked attacks, including the shooting of 145 people<\/a> at a concert hall outside Moscow in March 2024 which was claimed by ISIS. US officials said they had intelligence indicating ISIS-K was responsible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russia will help the Taliban authorities in Afghanistan fight against the Afghan branch of Islamic State, Moscow’s special…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[2881,34588,332,2880],"class_list":{"0":"post-68824","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-afghanistan","9":"tag-isis","10":"tag-russia","11":"tag-taliban"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114439154852113235","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}