{"id":13730,"date":"2026-05-26T05:30:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T05:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/26\/taliban-defense-minister-moscow-russian-security-conference\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T05:30:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T05:30:20","slug":"taliban-defense-minister-moscow-russian-security-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/26\/taliban-defense-minister-moscow-russian-security-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Defense Minister Mullah Yaqoob Travels to Moscow for Russian-Led Security Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mullah Muhammad Yaqoob Mujahid, the Defense Minister of the Taliban administration, has arrived in Moscow to participate in an international security conference hosted by the Russian Federation. The gathering brings together security and defense officials from various countries in the region and around the world.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement released by the Taliban&#8217;s Ministry of Defense, the conference will focus on regional security, shared security challenges, and ways for countries to cooperate and exchange views.<\/p>\n<p>Russia has hosted various meetings on Afghanistan in recent years. Although the Taliban administration has not been officially recognized by many countries, its officials are striving to strengthen their political and security standing at the regional level by participating in such conferences.<\/p>\n<p>The participation of Taliban officials in international meetings comes amid ongoing security concerns and discussions about the prospects for lasting stability in Afghanistan, which remain key topics in regional and global forums.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban Defense Minister Mullah Yaqoob attends a Russian-led international security conference in Moscow focusing on regional cooperation and security challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}