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California governor, in letter to defense secretary, calls move unlawful and asks for troops to be placed back under state command. The Guardian reports that the California governor, Gavin Newsom, on Sunday evening formally requested that the Trump administration rescind the deployment of national guards troops in Los Angeles. asiaplustj.info »
Azizullah Omar, the police chief of Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province, has denied reports claiming that Pakistani soldiers entered the strategic area in the Wakhan district of this province. asiaplustj.info »
The BBC’s Russian Service reported on December 10 that Vladimir Putin supported Bashar al-Assad during the Syrian civil war, and since late September 2015, a large Russian military contingent has been stationed in the country. asiaplustj.info »
Armenian media reports say Yerevan has decided to boycott the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) military maneuvers, which kicked off near Kazakhstan's largest city, Almaty, on September 26 with the participation of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan. Azatutyun. asiaplustj.info »
RIA Novosti says Indian External Affairs Minister Subramanyam Jaishankar said India was “putting pressure on China” to de-escalate tensions and deployed a record number of forces on the border between the two countries. asiaplustj.info »
Russia's military has been ordered to pull out of the Ukrainian city of Kherson, the only regional capital it captured after launching the so-called “special military operation” in Ukraine on February 24. asiaplustj.info »
Media reports say Russia's Defense Ministry has told the Ukrainian forces still fighting in the besieged southern port of Mariupol to lay down their arms starting 6 a.m. Moscow time on Sunday, April 17 to save their lives. asiaplustj.info »
A five-day tactical drill for servicemen of the Russian military base deployed in Tajikistan was launched at the Harbmaidon training ground in the Khatlon province on Mach 14. The press center of Russia’s Central Military District says the exercise involves more than 1,000 military personnel and more than 300 units of military hardware, including combat helicopters. asiaplustj.info »
An article by Farangis Najibullah and Mustafa Sarwar says Afghanistan’s Taliban-led Defense Ministry has established several new military units in three border provinces in the country’s north, northeast, and west, deploying an estimated 4,400 additional troops in the region. asiaplustj.info »
Taliban are reportedly going to send 10,000 military personnel to Afghanistan’s common border with Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. asiaplustj.info »
Kyrgyzstan intends to send 150 troops to Kazakhstan as a part of a peacekeeping mission of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO). The head of Kyrgyzstan’s State Committee for National Security (GKNB) Kamchybek Tashiyev has stated this at a session of the Jogorku Kenesh (the unicameral parliament of Kyrgyzstan), 24.kg news agency reported on January 7. asiaplustj.info »
The exercise started today. Tajik officers and soldiers will not be able to take part in the joint exercises of the Collective Rapid Deployment Forces of the Central Asian Collective Security Treaty Organization " Border -2021", which are taking place in Kyrgyzstan. asiaplustj.info »
The leader of the faction of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) in the State Duma (Russia’s lower chamber of parliament), Vladimir Zhirinovsky, has offered three options for solving the Afghan problem, including complete non-interference in internal affairs. “There are three options for solving the Afghan problem. asiaplustj.info »
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani returned to the capital yesterday after a flying visit to the besieged northern city of Mazar-e Sharif to rally forces loyal to the government, with Taliban fighters having now taken more than a quarter of the country's provincial capitals in less than a week. asiaplustj.info »
Radio Liberty says Tajikistan will reinforce its border with an additional 20,000 troops in response to a Taliban offensive capturing large swaths of territory in northern Afghanistan as U. S. troops exit the country. asiaplustj.info »
More than 1,000 Afghan troops have been forced to flee into Tajikistan as Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province is increasingly coming under control of the Taliban. asiaplustj.info »
Nearly 400 other Afghan troops have been forced to flee into Tajikistan over the past weekend as the situation hast been aggravated in Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province. asiaplustj.info »
Eurasianent says the isolated cases of Afghan government troops seeking refuge across the border in neighboring Tajikistan and Uzbekistan are now becoming a commonplace occurrence. On the morning of June 27, an armed group of Taliban militants launched an attacked on a border checkpoint in Afghanistan’s Kaldar district, forcing 17 Afghan troops to flee into Tajikistan. asiaplustj.info »
For the second time in a matter of days, dozens of border troops and government-loyal militia in Afghanistan have resorted to seeking refuge in a neighboring nation to the north. This time, however, they were swiftly expelled, according to Eurasianet . asiaplustj.info »
An article by Nic Robertson, International Diplomatic Editor, posted on CNN’s website yesterday, notes that earlier this week, Taliban militants sauntered up to the gates of Mazar-i Sharif, Afghanistan's fourth largest city. asiaplustj.info »
U. S. President Joe Biden plans to withdraw the remaining 2,500 U. S. troops from Afghanistan by September 11, 2021, 20 years to the day after the al Qaeda attacks that triggered America’s longest war, U. asiaplustj.info »
