{"id":24494,"date":"2026-10-22T07:08:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T07:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/22\/russia-expand-military-security-cooperation-afghanistan-taliban\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T07:08:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T07:08:31","slug":"russia-expand-military-security-cooperation-afghanistan-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/22\/russia-expand-military-security-cooperation-afghanistan-taliban\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Says It Will Expand Military and Security Cooperation With Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maria Zakharova, spokeswoman for Russia&#8217;s Foreign Ministry, said her country plans to expand cooperation with the Taliban administration in counterterrorism, narcotics and defence affairs.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a news conference in Moscow, Zakharova said Russia is seeking to resolve disputes between Afghanistan and Pakistan through diplomatic channels and is steadily increasing its cooperation with Kabul.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman added that confronting security threats in the region is a shared responsibility among countries, and achieving that goal requires constructive engagement and joint efforts from all relevant parties.<\/p>\n<p>The remarks come after Russia and the Taliban administration signed a military-technical cooperation agreement on May 27 this year. Such cooperation, taking shape at a sensitive and unstable time in Afghanistan, has raised widespread concerns about its impact on stability and the rights of the Afghan people, especially women and vulnerable groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia says it will expand military and security cooperation with the Taliban administration, including counterterrorism, narcotics and defence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24494","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\/24494","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=24494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}