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Putin’s Predictable Syrian Compromise Amidst Hostile Russian Behavior
Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 18 Issue: 110
(Source: BBC News)
It took a telephone call from United States President Joseph Biden last Friday (July 9) afternoon to convince President Vladimir Putin to abandon his “principled” stance on upholding Syria’s sovereignty and to grant consent to keeping the corridor for delivering humanitarian aid to the rebel-controlled Idlib province open. Until then, tense talks at the United Nations Security Council appeared to hit a wall: Russia refused to extend the compromise reached a year prior, which had authorized the Bab al-Hawa border crossing from Turkey. But after the Putin-Biden phone call, Moscow suddenly lifted its firmly formulated objections at the last minute, without any conditions (
Taliban: We Never Promised to Cut Ties with al-Qaeda
12 Jul 2021
A spokesman for the Taliban terror group implied to Afghanistan’s Tolo News on Monday the jihadist organization “maintains ties with al Qaeda and other terrorist groups.”
Tolo News raised the issue of the Taliban’s alleged ties to the Islamist terror group al-Qaeda during an interview with Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid on July 12. Mujahid said that an agreement between the Taliban, the legitimate government of Afghanistan, and the administration of President Donald Trump never required the Taliban to cut ties to the group.
“Nowhere in the agreement has it been mentioned that we have or don’t have ties with anyone,” Mujahid asserted, responding to a long list of evidence that the Taliban continued to associate with al-Qaeda following negotiations with Washington.
12 Jul 2021
China wants to serve as “a mediator, or a ‘guarantor of security ” on the Afghanistan issue, China’s state-run
Global Timesreported on Sunday, in response to the Taliban’s growing dominance of most of the country.
“China’s consistent position on the Afghan issue is to respect Afghanistan’s historical and current conditions, and to help but not interfere, which is also what separates China from the US and makes China a mediator, or a ‘guarantor of security’ in the region,” Yang Jin, an associate research fellow at the Institute of Russian, Eastern European, and Central Asian Studies under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told the
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