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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar

Russia’s top court removes Taliban’s terror group designation

Russia’s Supreme Court lifted the ban on Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban, a group that had been designated as a terrorist organisation more than two decades ago.

The Islamist militants wrested power from the Ashraf Ghani administration in August 2021 as US and Nato troops were in the final weeks of withdrawing from the country after two decades of war.

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