US EditionRussia’s top court lifts terror group designation on Afghanistan’s Taliban
- Russia's Supreme Court lifted the ban on the Taliban, a group labeled as a terrorist organization in 2003, on Thursday.
- The court's ruling was based on a request from the Prosecutor General's Office and followed a new law allowing court-suspended terror designations.
- Analyst Michael Kugelman noted that the move is not significant, as many countries have not labeled the Taliban as terrorists.
- The decision boosts the Taliban's legitimacy and helps Russia engage more while addressing anti-Russia terror group concerns, particularly from Islamic State-Khorasan.
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Radio France Internationale
This is no surprise: the normalization of relations between Moscow and the Taliban has been in progress for several years. On Thursday, 17 April, the Russian Supreme Court formalized the withdrawal of the Taliban from the list of terrorist organizations, a measure, she said, "with immediate effect".
For a long time, the Russian leadership has stretched out its feelers to the Taliban in Afghanistan. Now, the Islamist organization is being removed from the terrorist list and relations are being improved.
The Supreme Court of Russia has granted the Prosecutor General's application to suspend the ban on the activities of the Taliban movement, reports TASS.
Russia Removes Afghanistan's Taliban From Terror List In Step Toward Recognition
Russia’s Supreme Court removed Afghanistan's militant Taliban rulers from its list of banned terrorist groups in a step toward recognizing the group that seized power in 2021 as international forces withdrew from the war-torn country.
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