Taliban Strengthens in Afghanistan, Five Leaders of Central Asian Countries are worried

They discussed the war that was raging in neighboring Afghanistan.

The talks in the Caspian Sea city of Avaza came as the Taliban challenged Afghan government forces in several major cities after weeks of gains in the countryside, including in the provinces next to three former Soviet ‘stans’ bordering Afghanistan: Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Afghanistan. Uzbekistan.

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Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov called Afghanistan “a question that worries us all” on Wednesday when television showed him receiving his Tajik counterpart Emomali Rakhmon for bilateral talks ahead of the summit.

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Russia, meanwhile, was engaged in joint military exercises near the Afghan borders in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan when a top Kremlin military official flew into the region on Thursday to observe the exercises and hold talks.

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Fighting in Afghanistan began to escalate in May, when the United States (US) and other foreign forces began to withdraw.

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