Russia Pulls Back From Cooperating With U.S. on Afghanistan - NYT
Russia Pulls Back From Cooperating With U.S. on Afghanistan Sunday February 21 st , 2016 at 6:51 AM 1 Share KABUL, Afghanistan — For all the conflicts in the world in which Washington is at odds with Moscow, the deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan has been one area where the Obama administration’s interests and Russia ’s concerns coincide . Disputes over the wars in Ukraine and Syria had not stopped the governments from cooperating on counternarcotics and securing military supply lines. But after initial success on those fronts, Russia now seems to be disengaging with both the United States and the American-backed Afghan government. On an old Cold War battlefield where Russia fought a nearly decade-long war against United States-supplied fighters, Moscow has a new strategy: the cold shoulder. “We won’t join the useless events, and we’ve already told the Americans,” President Vladimir V. Putin ’s envoy to Afghanistan , Zamir N