Moscow’s cooperation with the Taliban government on anti-terrorism efforts “is conducted on a regular basis,” said the Ministry’s second Asian Department director, Zamir Kabulov. “There is nothing special to add here.” On March 23, analysts of the U.S.-based think tank Institute for the Study of War (ISW) suggested that the Crocus City Hall shooting could have been carried out by representatives of the Afghanistan-based Islamic State unit ISIS-X (Khorasan). Militants from the Taliban Islamist movement, which is banned in Russia, launched a large-scale offensive across Afghanistan in early May …