The United States Department of Defense does not exclude the possibility of coordinating actions with the radical Taliban movement (banned in Russia) in order to combat the offshoot of the Islamic State terrorist group (IS, banned in Russia) in Afghanistan. This was announced on Wednesday, September 1, at a press conference in the Pentagon, the chairman of the Committee of the Chiefs of Staff of the Armed Forces (AF) of the United States, General Mark Milli.
There were no other comments on this topic from him.
On September 1, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Morgulov said that the terrorist threat from Afghanistan remains. He added that the activities of the IG remain a significant factor in the degradation of the situation in the country.
On August 26, US President Joe Biden took responsibility for the events that took place in Afghanistan. He noted that, according to American intelligence, the explosions at the Kabul airport were carried out by militants of the radical IS movement. In turn, the Biden administration also commented on this requirement, calling on the United States to unite to respond to terrorists.
The first explosion in the capital of Afghanistan on August 26 thundered at the entrance to the airport, the second — near the Baron hotel, in the immediate vicinity of the air harbor. The media reports on the involvement of a suicide bomber from the IG in the first explosion. The second explosion occurred as a result of the explosion of a car bomb. After that, a third explosion occurred in Kabul.
On August 27, the central command of the US armed forces reported that the US military launched an air strike in the province of Nangarhar in eastern Afghanistan. The ministry clarified that an IG militant group was destroyed with the help of an unmanned aerial vehicle.
The situation in Afghanistan escalated in May 2021 after the start of the withdrawal of American troops who had been in the country for the past 20 years. On August 15, Taliban militants (a terrorist movement banned in the Russian Federation) entered Kabul, then announced the end of the war.
