While world attention is focused on the war in Syria is heating up the new/old point of confrontation between the US and Russia – Afghanistan. Moscow and Washington and then exchanged a barrage of serious accusations. The white house believes that Russia supports the Taliban, the Kremlin rebukes the administration of Donald trump's "inconsistent display of power, like the explosion of a heavy duty bomb." Against this background, the political and military situation in Afghanistan escalates, and the country plunged into chaos, partly comparable with the Syrian catastrophe.