A soldier was killed and seven others were injured in a landmine explosion and subsequent attack by armed militants in the Jiwani area of Pakistan’s Gwadar district, Dawn newspaper reported. Coast Guard personnel were travelling in their vehicle when it hit a landmine in the Duran area on Saturday, according to officials. Post the blast, the vehicle was ambushed by […]

Pakistani police killed two commanders from a militant group in the country’s northwest, a local officer said Saturday. Pakistan has increased its operations against militants after a surge in violence by the Pakistani Taliban, or TTP, particularly in the northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The TTP ended its cease-fire with the government in November, ordering its fighters to carry out attacks […]

A bomb blast in southwestern Pakistan Sunday reportedly killed at least one soldier and injured 12 people, including civilians. The attack targeted a military vehicle at the entrance to a security checkpoint in a highly guarded central part of Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province, residents and officials said. Neither provincial police nor the military’s media wing shared any details […]

Bilal al-Sudani’s financing of the ISIS branch in Afghanistan that killed 13 U.S. troops in 2021 elevated him on U.S. kill-or-capture lists. Bilal al-Sudani was no stranger to American counterterrorism officials. Before joining the Islamic State affiliate in Somalia, Mr. al-Sudani was subjected to punitive sanctions by the U.S. Treasury Department in 2012 for his involvement with Al Shabab, Al […]

Da Afghanistan Bank (DAB) has announced that it will auction $17 million on Wednesday as part of the efforts to stabilize the value of the Afghan currency against foreign currencies. In a series of tweets on Monday, the Central Bank of Afghanistan asked qualified private banks and exchange companies to participate in the auction. The winners of the auction are […]

Russia has no plans to close its diplomatic mission in Kabul, Director of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Second Asian Department Zamir Kabulov told TASS on Monday. Earlier, the Al-Arabiya TV channel reported that the authorities of several Arab and Western countries decided to close their diplomatic missions in Kabul because of security threats. “Such thoughts have not even occurred,” Kabulov […]

The head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) emphasized the need for the inclusion of women and girls in vocational education on Monday in a meeting with Ghulam Haider Shahamat, acting head of Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET). In this meeting, Roza Otunbayeva said that vocational training is necessary for the economic development of Afghanistan and […]

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s (OIC) preparatory meeting for the 49th session of the Council of Foreign Ministers for member states started in Jeddah on Sunday. The 49th session will be held on March 16 and 17 in Nouakchott, Mauritania. OIC Secretary-General Hissein Brahim Taha said that the Palestinian cause — the central cause of the OIC — has seen […]

Qatar’s Special Envoy of the Minister of Foreign Affairs for Counterterrorism and Mediation in Conflict Resolution Mutlaq bin Majed Al Qahtani met with a number of senior Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) officials on Sunday in Kabul for talks on the current situation in the country. The Qatari envoy met with IEA Foreign Affairs Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi; Minister of […]

A delegation of Islamic religious scholars from Palestine and other Muslim countries traveled to Afghanistan in January 2023 and met with senior officials from the Afghan Taliban government, including Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani, who is on the FBI’s Most Wanted list, deputy prime ministers, and others, according to Afghan newspapers and social media posts.[1] The Islamic religious scholars from Egypt, […]