{"id":23993,"date":"2026-10-14T17:01:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T17:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/14\/russia-foreign-intelligence-chief-afghanistan-taliban-visit\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T17:01:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T17:01:12","slug":"russia-foreign-intelligence-chief-afghanistan-taliban-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/14\/russia-foreign-intelligence-chief-afghanistan-taliban-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Russian Foreign Intelligence Chief Arrives in Afghanistan on Official Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sources say Sergei Naryshkin, head of Russia&#8217;s foreign intelligence service, has arrived in Afghanistan on an official visit and met with Mawlawi Abdul Haq Wasiq, the Taliban administration&#8217;s intelligence chief.<\/p>\n<p>According to these sources, the two sides discussed important issues during the meeting, but details of those issues and the length of Naryshkin&#8217;s stay in Afghanistan have not been announced.<\/p>\n<p>The visit comes at a time when security and political ties between Russia and the Taliban administration have drawn attention in recent years, but no further information has so far been released about the specific purpose of the meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia&#8217;s foreign intelligence chief Sergei Naryshkin visits Afghanistan and meets the Taliban intelligence chief, sources say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23993","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\/23993","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=23993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}