Russian president acknowledges Afghanistan faces issues that require constant attention from international community
    • nyahlathotepEnglish
      2·
      5 months ago

      The one where ISIS exists and attacked Moscow’s Crocus City Hall theater in March. IIRC the Taliban and ISIS aren’t best friends because ISIS sees them as resting on their laurels and wanting to stabilize their control of Afghanistan rather than expanding and building an Islamic State.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    172·
    5 months ago

    This is not an “are we the baddies?” situation because they already know the answer.

  • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    62·
    5 months ago

    ISIS -K does terror attacks all over the region. Taliban fights ISIS-K.

    This is not news for anyone slightly informed about the region. Are people going to be surprised we worked with Iran to fight ISIS next?

            • RozhkiNozhki@lemmy.worldEnglish
              81·
              5 months ago

              He really did call them allies, and I have this quote both in Russian and in English. No matter how you slice it it says what it says. Moreover, this in not his first acknowledgement of potential cooperation, it’s been going on for quite some time now.

                • Weslee@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  61·
                  5 months ago

                  No one here is saying they have formed a formal alliance (yet). It’s funny how you say he mentions “control”, and “stability”, then did your eyes shield you from the next line?

                  "… the Taliban are certainly our allies in the fight against terrorism… "

                  Literally says they are his allies in a quote taken directly from the shitheads’ mouth.

                  You can try twist it in your mind however you want, but no one is as stupid as you, and we can actually read.

                • RozhkiNozhki@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  61·
                  5 months ago

                  I’ll remind you when the formal alliance will be finalized since MID is already working on excluding them from the terrorist list.

    • rdri@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      5 months ago

      Russia’s anti-terrorism goals

      You’ll say this is a quote. The fact that you rely on this very phrase is hilarious. Either Putin equals Russia for you or you accept that he is not a terrorist.