... proximity to, Afghanistan, as well as about the European Union. All these countries have been keeping a close eye on events in Afghanistan over the years, and during this time, they have developed a number of common approaches to how they see the future ... ... 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 ...
... reputation as an implacable and most persistent enemy of IS in the Islamic world. Paradoxically, the Islamic State propaganda 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 of the Islamic State in Afghanistan and Pakistan?
REUTERS/Ahmed Saad
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, namely the
Taliban Movement of Pakistan
(Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, TTP). Nevertheless, the composition of IS supporters in ...
... Iranian-Afghan border.
Discussion
The Wall Street Journal
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Iran has allowed the Taliban to open an office in eastern Iran and discussed providing 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 ...
