China is seeking to undermine the longstanding pre-eminence of the U.S. dollar as a global reserve currency and the primary vehicle for conducting world energy transactions. The prominence of the U.S. dollar in global transactions provides Washington with substantial leverage to use economic sanctions to try to change the behavior of targeted regimes.

A total of 150 foreign investors received licenses to invest in Afghanistan since the Islamic Emirate took over in August 2021, officials said on Saturday. The investors who received investment licenses are from the United States, China, Britain, Canada, Qatar, Poland, Netherlands, Pakistan, Iran, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Arab countries, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce said. “Some have already started […]

Former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says President Joe Biden’s decision to completely withdraw American forces from Afghanistan has damaged the country’s prestige on an international level. In an interview on Friday, Pompeo said: “President Trump campaigned on getting out of Afghanistan and the American people wanted them out, President Biden campaigned saying he would do the same, and […]

Republican legislators have launched an investigation into the chaotic United States military withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021. Michael McCaul, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said on Friday he had written to Secretary of State Antony Blinken requesting an array of records, from intelligence assessments to communications with the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), AFP reported. McCaul, a […]

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said on Saturday that they have not recognized the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), but have established relations in some instances in order to resolve problems. “We have not recognized the legitimacy of the current ruling group in Afghanistan, but in some particular cases in order to decrease the problems with which that country […]

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s (IEA) Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi met with the Turkish Ambassador, Cihad Erginay, on Saturday night in Kabul. Erginay expressed his deep condolences to the affected Afghan families of the late terror attack that took place near the entrance of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, resulting in the death and injury of scores of innocent […]

A large explosion caused by a suicide bomber in Kabul’s diplomatic district left at least 13 people dead and others injured Wednesday in the latest attack targeting Afghanistan’s Taliban regime, according to a CBS News source. The blast happened at the main entrance of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs just as employees were leaving for the day, and images shared […]

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s (IEA) Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi met with Russian special envoy for Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, and discussed bilateral relations, regional issues, economic cooperation and the current situation, a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, Hafiz Zia Ahmad Takal, said. Takal said Muttaqi emphasized the need for the extension of diplomatic presence in Moscow. He quoted the […]

Afghanistan and Pakistan have had a tortuous shared history that has left a complicated legacy of divided ethnicity across a Pak-Afghan border. Despite having some serious concerns regarding TTP’s sanctuaries inside Afghanistan, Pakistan has been extending all possible political and economic assistance to Kabul over humanitarian grounds.  Since the fall of Kabul, chaos has engulfed Kabul, with Islamic Emirate of […]

Turkmenistan’s president opened 2023 with a tribute mission to China. As Serdar Berdymukhamedov noted before his departure from Ashgabat, his state visit carried important symbolic value since it fell on the exact 31st anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Turkmenistan and China.  After a six-and-a-half-hour flight to Beijing on January 5, Berdymukhamedov was driven in a motorcade to the Diaoyutai State […]