Russia has become the first country to formally recognize the Taliban’s government in Afghanistan since it seized power in ...

Russia has become the first country in the world to formally recognize Afghanistan's Taliban government. This improves the ...

Russia becomes first country to recognise Afghanistan’s Taliban regime. Will China follow? - Experts monitoring the Taliban’s ...

Russia has become the first country to formally recognize the Taliban rule in Afghanistan. Afghanistan’s Foreign Ministry ...

The cost of the 20-year war in Afghanistan 03:30. Moscow — In the Taliban's rapid takeover of Afghanistan following the chaotic withdrawal of U.S. forces this week, Russia sees an opportunity to ...

Russia’s approach in Afghanistan replicates some of the elements of its successful Syria strategy. Moscow has already launched several efforts at diplomacy. Between December 2016 and April 2017, ...

In March 2018, Gen. John Nicholson – who was then the commander of U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan but has since retired – told the BBC Russia supplied the Taliban with arms. Russia ...

The recent assessment that Russia paid bounties to the insurgents to attack U.S. troops stunned many, but officials said the Kremlin’s outreach began almost a decade ago.

Russia's moves in Afghanistan are part of a wider global contest with the U.S. to assert Moscow's military or political might where it sees openings with relatively low risk, ...

Ukraine Russia's war against Ukraine will be Biden's Afghanistan 2.0 Russia, Ukraine, and US are unwilling to change goals to reduce conflict ...

A former senior Taliban official told CBS News that while the move was welcome, "Russia and China can't financially support ...

Russia has become the first nation to formally recognise the Taliban government in Afghanistan since the group seized power ...