Taliban soldiers celebrate on the second anniversary of the fall of Kabul on a street near the US embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 15, 2023. REUTERSRussia said on Thursday it had accepted the credentials of a new ambassador of Afghanistan, making it the first nation to recognise the Taliban government of the country. In March 2024, gunmen killed 149 people at a concert hall outside Moscow in an attack claimed by Islamic State. The Taliban says it is working to wipe out the presence of Islamic State in Afghanistan. Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev pulled his army out in 1989, by which time some 15,000 Soviet soldiers had been killed.

Source: bd News24 July 04, 2025 03:52 UTC