Al Jazeera English has a report from a post on the Tajikistan border with Afghanistan, which claims that the Taliban are moving north and, according to the governor of Kunduz province, "from here, they can operate in Central Asian countries, Uzbekistan and Chechnya":
There are a lot of questionable things about this report. Why would Taliban be shooting at Tajik border guards? And who would seriously believe that a base in northern Afghanistan gives them any sort of proximity to Chechnya? And, most importantly, in whose interest is it to put this kind of information out there? Thoughts?
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