During talks with a visiting Taliban delegation, Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif on Sunday called for the formation of an inclusive government in Afghanistan.

Members of the Afghan Republic’s religious delegation of the peace talks team on Sunday met with leaders of the International Union of Muslim Scholars in Doha to discuss the peace process.

Naqibullah Fayaq, governor of Faryab province, said that Iranian-made armor-piercing Heidar sniper rifles are being used by the Taliban in the north-western province. According to Fayaq, the “Taliban use Heidar weapons that can pierce armored vehicles.”

The secretary-general of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Vladimir Norov said on Friday ISIS (Daesh) militants have moved to Afghanistan from the Middle East and posed a threat to regional security.

A Taliban tank bombing on a military base in Shirzad district of Nangarhar province killed 15 soldiers and wounded four others, security sources confirmed.

The Interior Ministry has refuted claims that unarmed civilians were targeted by police during a protest in Bihsud district in Maidan Wardak province on Friday that left at least eleven people dead.

President Ashraf Ghani implied on Friday that he expects the Biden administration to keep US troops in Afghanistan for longer than anticipated under the US-Taliban deal, signed by the Trump administration, saying the Taliban aren’t meeting their obligations to reduce violence.

Mangal Bagh along with 2 other militants killed in roadside bomb attack in Nangarhar, local official says A key commander of Pakistani militants was killed in eastern Afghanistan, a local official said on Thursday.

The Trump administration-set level of 2,500 American troops in Afghanistan is enough to achieve the decades-old U.S. mission there, but a full withdrawal by May is a “big if” due to Taliban violence, the Pentagon’s top spokesman said.

The deputy head of the Taliban negotiating team that is holding peace talks with the Afghan government, met Russian President Vladimir Putin’s special envoy for Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov and other Foreign Ministry officials during the Moscow visit.