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Financial Times: Russia seeks to forge ties with Taliban as US troops leave Afghanistan

By Financial Times.
U.S. Army soldiers return home from a 9-month deployment to Afghanistan on Dec. 10, 2020 at Fort Drum, New York.
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Russia is stepping into the security vacuum created by the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, with President Vladimir Putin looking to re-exert influence in central Asia and prevent Islamist extremism from spilling over the borders.

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