July 9, 2021
KABUL/MOSCOW/HERAT: Afghan government forces on Thursday wrest back control of a western provincial capital stormed by the Taliban a day earlier and hundreds of fresh troops have been deployed to the region, the defence ministry said.
It said some fighting was continuing on the fringes of Qala-e-Naw, capital of Badghis province, which borders the central Asian country of Turkmenistan. Insurgents had on Wednesday seized key government buildings in the city including police headquarters as part of a dramatic Taliban advance unfolding as foreign forces withdrew from Afghanistan after a 20-year-long intervention.
“The city is fully (back) under our control and we are conducting operations against the Taliban on the outskirts of the city,” Defence Ministry spokesman Fawad Aman said. The ministry said 69 Taliban fighters had been killed in fresh operations on the edge of Qala-e-Naw - the first major provincial capital entered by the Islamist insurgents in their latest
Tajikistan Calls for Russian Military Aid on Afghanistan Border
Border Troops of the State Committee for National Security of the Republic of Tajikistan via AP
8 Jul 2021
Tajikistan asked the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) a Russian-led military alliance of former Soviet republics for help in securing its border with Afghanistan on Wednesday, citing advances by the Taliban terror group following a Western troop withdrawal from Kabul.
“Tajikistan, as the country with the longest border with Afghanistan, is taking all possible measures to maintain the situation, to meet the threats and challenges coming from that country,” Hasan Sultanov, the Permanent Representative of Tajikistan to the CSTO, said at a meeting of the CSTO Permanent Council on July 7.
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The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives (1997) and
Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power (2012), promoted the concept of a Weimar Triangle – France, Germany and Poland – becoming the major power in a united post-Cold War Europe.
Germany, with the largest economy and biggest population, was to be the major partner; with a residual influence in Africa and the Mediterranean, France would be the second (in
Grand Chessboard he basically compares France to an aged courtesan who must be flattered to keep her complacent); and Poland would be the emergent third power that would keep the Russian barbarian at the gate.
Фото: RFE/RL
Данное сообщение создано и распространено иностранным средством массовой информации, выполняющим функции иностранного агента, российским юридическим лицом, Радио Свобода Американцы ушли из Афганистана, чтобы талибы напали на Россию! - надрываются гости российских ток-шоу. Ну а раз нападение - его нужно отбить. Будем ли мы вводить войска в Афганистан? - сам у себя спрашивает министр иностранных дел РФ Лавров. - Ответ очевиден . Не всем очевидно, что именно очевидно Лаврову. Очевидно да, или очевидно нет? Мы конечно же свои обяза