{"id":12342,"date":"2025-06-29T08:38:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T04:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=12342"},"modified":"2025-06-29T08:38:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T04:08:26","slug":"russia-taliban-dominated-afghanistan-is-a-source-of-threat-to-the-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/russia-taliban-dominated-afghanistan-is-a-source-of-threat-to-the-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia: Taliban-dominated Afghanistan is a source of threat to the region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12345\" src=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/rus-afggg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Yuri Kukov, deputy secretary of the Russian Security Council, called Afghanistan under Taliban rule &#8220;a source of instability and a threat&#8221; to neighbors.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>In an interview with the Russianskaya newspaper, he said Moscow was particularly concerned about ISIS&#8217;s activities in Afghanistan and its attempts to infiltrate Central Asia and Russia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Kukov warned that the threat of terrorism in neighboring countries, especially Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, had increased.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Earlier, the Russian defense minister had described Afghanistan as the main source of cross-border threats in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The Taliban have always denied the presence of terrorist groups in Afghanistan<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yuri Kukov, deputy secretary of the Russian Security Council, called Afghanistan under Taliban rule &#8220;a source of instability and a threat&#8221; to neighbors. In an interview with the Russianskaya newspaper, he said Moscow was particularly concerned about ISIS&#8217;s activities in Afghanistan and its attempts to infiltrate Central Asia and Russia. Kukov warned that the threat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12345,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12348,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12342\/revisions\/12348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}