UK Labour Party Shadow Home Secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds said on 23 August that the Conservative government was “asleep at the wheel” on the evacuation of Afghan assistants despite knowing in advance that the United States had set a deadline for the withdrawal of their armed forces. “We find ourselves in ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin deems it important to prevent the spillover of extremism from Afghanistan into the territories of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO)’s member states and the recruitment of citizens into the ranks of militants, Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Monday. “The problem of Afghan drug ...