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Russian court scraps Taliban terror label
Taliban security personnel patrol along the road in a humvee vehicle after a man was publicly executed at a football stadium in Zaranj, in Nimruz province, Afghanistan, on April 11, 2025. (AFP)
MOSCOW, Russia — Russia’s Supreme Court removes the Taliban’s designation as a “terrorist organization,” a symbolic gesture aimed at building friendly ties with Afghanistan’s de facto rulers.
“By decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, the previously established ban on the activities of the Taliban — included on the unified federal list of organizations recognised as terrorist — has been suspended,” a judge says, according to the TASS state news agency.
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