{"id":39651,"date":"2026-04-29T09:01:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T04:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/?p=39651"},"modified":"2026-04-29T09:01:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T04:31:29","slug":"russian-defense-minister-says-afghanistan-remains-primary-source-of-terrorist-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/39651\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Defense Minister Says Afghanistan Remains \u201cPrimary Source of Terrorist Threats\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Andrey Belousov, Russia\u2019s Defense Minister, said yesterday that instability in Afghanistan continues and that the country remains a \u201cprimary source of transnational crime and terrorist threats.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking at a meeting of defense ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), Belousov said Russia considers attempts by \u201cnon-regional\u201d countries to establish a military presence and carry out logistical operations in Central Asia unacceptable, and expressed deep concern about the situation in Afghanistan, Syria, Lebanon, and the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He noted: \u201cThere are risks of militant infiltration from crisis regions into neighboring countries, including the SCO region.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although Russia is the only country that has recognized the Taliban, Moscow has consistently expressed concern about the situation in Afghanistan under their rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russia believes that around 20 \u201cterrorist\u201d groups with 20,000 to 23,000 fighters are operating in Afghanistan, with about half of them being foreign nationals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moscow has previously praised Taliban efforts to combat terrorism, although it considers them insufficient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrey Belousov, Russia\u2019s Defense Minister, said yesterday that instability in Afghanistan continues and that the country remains a \u201cprimary source of transnational crime and terrorist threats.\u201d Speaking at a meeting of defense ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), Belousov said Russia considers attempts by \u201cnon-regional\u201d countries to establish a military presence and carry out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":39652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[7623,8746,8747,8751,8750,8749,8745,7833,8748,8194,8744,1238,2335,5719,5706,1482],"class_list":["post-39651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan","tag-afghanistan-2","tag-andrey-belousov","tag-crime","tag-foreign-nationals-2","tag-insufficient","tag-militant-infiltration","tag-russian-defense-minister","tag-sco","tag-shanghai-2","tag-syria-2","tag-terrorist-threats-2","tag-afghanistan","tag-deeyar","tag-deeyar-television","tag-deeyar-tv","tag-taliban"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39653,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39651\/revisions\/39653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}