A delegation of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) will soon visit Iran to discuss Afghan refugees’ problems with the authorities of the neighboring country, a senior Afghan official said on Tuesday. Khalil-ur-Rahman Haqqani, acting minister of refugees and repatriation said that the delegation, including the ministry’s officials, would leave for Iran soon after Eid. “We have a plan which we […]

Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) forces will protect the country’s airports and that negotiations on bringing in the help of another country is based on technical issues only, its deputy spokesman said on Tuesday. Qatar and Turkey have been in talks with the IEA in recent months to help run Afghan airports, but they have yet to reach an agreement. […]

A recent string of deadly terror attacks across Afghanistan has left the country reeling, challenging the Taliban’s already strained governance just eight months after the US withdrawal. An explosion at a mosque on Friday in Afghanistan’s capital city Kabul killed at least 10 people and left 20 others injured, according to multiple reports. It’s the latest in a series of […]

A bomb blast in a passenger van in Kabul on Saturday killed at least one person, officials said, in the second explosion in the Afghan capital in two days, as security concerns rise on the eve of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr. Islamic state claimed responsibility for the attack on Saturday, according to the group’s telegram channel. “One woman […]

Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) said Sunday that Uzbekistan has sent in another shipment of humanitarian aid to Afghanistan in the form of food and clothing. According to IEA spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid, 4,000 tons of goods arrived in the country. “By the order of the President of Uzbekistan, 4,000 tons of materials such as flour, wheat, rice, oil, clothing, spices […]

Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf has accused Washington of using ISIS (Daesh) to create insecurity and a rift among religious and ethnic groups in Afghanistan. Addressing an open session of parliament in Tehran on Sunday, Qalibaf said the US is using Daesh to create insecurity in Afghanistan in order to create ethnic-religious sedition in Afghanistan and to put pressure […]

The US Special Representative for Afghanistan Thomas West says Washington has not forgotten Afghanistan but that the Islamic Emirate (IEA) needs to fulfil its commitments in order to be recognized as the legitimate government by the international community. In an interview with Ariana News, West said the leaders of the Islamic Emirate can gain global legitimacy by fulfilling their obligations […]

Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has underlined the need for the delivery of urgent humanitarian aid to the Afghan people. At the end of a three-day visit to Saudi Arabia on Saturday, Sharif issued the call at a meeting with Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Secretary-General Hissein Brahim Taha in Makkah. The Prime Minister’s Office in Islamabad said Sharif affirmed […]

The Afghan embassy in India has informed the Punjab University administration about the Afghan students still stuck in their country due to the non-issuance of visas. The embassy spotlighted the problem in an email addressed to the dean of international students, an Indian newspaper reported on Sunday. The Afghans were informed earlier in the month that the end-semester examination for […]

Uzbekistan has provided 4,000 tonnes of food and medicine aid to Afghanistan, an official said on Sunday. The aid included wheat, cooking oil, garments, medicine, vaccine and other essential items, Zabihullah Mujahid, the government acting spokesperson wrote on his twitter handle. Mujahid thanked Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev for his generous assistance to the people of Afghanistan on the eve of […]