According to the US government’s annual threat assessment, released by its intelligence community this week, Daesh remains the most significant terrorism challenge facing America and its partners. The assessment is part of a broader report that addresses all threats to the US including, but not limited to, terrorism. Notably, this year’s report includes an alarming section about the role of […]

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has reported that 73,364 Afghans returned to their country in the third week of March, while 36,166 others left. The main reason for this increase from neighboring Pakistan and Iran is voluntary return, IOM said. According to the flow monitoring snapshot released by the IOM, compared to the previous week, the inflow movement in […]

The US National Intelligence Agency has excluded Afghanistan from its latest annual report on terrorist threats to national security, released Tuesday, despite documented evidence of Islamic State (ISIS) and Al-Qaeda presence in the Taliban-controlled nation. This marks a stark shift from last year’s assessment, which referenced Afghanistan six times and the Taliban eight times. The 2025 US Intelligence Community’s global […]

The assassination of Khalil ur-Rehman Haqqani, the Minister for Refugee and Repatriation in the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), on 11 December 2024 in Kabul, marked the first high-profile killing of a Taliban official since the Taliban’s return to power in August 2021. The key figure of the Haqqani Network died in a suicide attack on ministry premises as he […]

Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar Akhund, Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs, on Sunday inaugurated the start of construction work on the Arghandi Transport Terminal in Paghman District of Kabul Province. The inauguration ceremony was attended by the Acting Minister of Transport and Aviation, Mullah Hamidullah Akhundzada, representatives from the private sector, and a number of local residents. Baradar said the […]

The Pakistani representative stressed the need to utilize the full potential of regional trade and transit routes to benefit both nations. Pakistan’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, Mohammad Sadiq, has wrapped up his three-day trip to Kabul where he met with a number of Islamic Emirate officials for talks on various topics including trade, bilateral relations, regional connectivity and security. According […]

At a recent gathering in Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province, Mawlawi Amanuddin Mansoor, commander of the Taliban’s 217 Omari Corps, boasted that he could capture neighboring Tajikistan if given permission. His words were laced with contempt for Tajiks and a brazen dismissal of Russia’s deterrence due to its entanglement in Ukraine. While it may be tempting to dismiss this as mere bravado, […]

“The Islamic Emirate has control over the entire geography of the country, and there is no unauthorized activity here, nor is it allowed,” said Fitrat. The Islamic Emirate’s spokesman Hamdullah Fitrat said Wednesday that the recent remarks to the United Nations Security Council by Pakistan’s envoy to the UN on Afghanistan not being able to control Daesh was “baseless” and […]

The Islamic Emirate’s spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid says Afghanistan is confronting a propaganda war, stating that intelligence circles from several major and powerful countries are spending heavily through various channels to distort the positive efforts of the Islamic Emirate and portray the situation as hopeless for the people. Mujahid made these remarks in an interview with Ariana News. “Afghanistan is facing […]

Afghanistan’s hard-line Islamist Taliban rulers say they no longer consider the Doha agreement — a peace deal with the United States that paved the way for the withdrawal of Western forces from the country — to be valid. Speaking on February 28, the fifth anniversary of the agreement, chief Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said the accord was limited to a […]