Uzbekistan’s President Shavkat Mirziyoyev on Monday met with Qatar’s Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani for talks on a number of issues including the Trans-Afghan Railway project. The two leaders also discussed bilateral trade issues, strengthening of relations and regional matters, including the escalating situation in the Middle East. In October 2023, Uzbekistan Railways JSC […]

Russia and Tajikistan conducted a joint four-day military exercise along the border with Afghanistan in order to be prepared for any “potential threats”, Tajik media reported this week. Russian military personnel from the 201st military base in Tajikistan participated in this exercise. Reports stated military personnel practiced various combat tactics, especially tactics to counter terrorist groups that illegally enter Tajikistan. […]

In the years since the US and its NATO allies left Afghanistan, a particularly violent branch of the Islamic State terror group has grown stronger. ISIS-K was once relatively restricted to the country, with limited influence beyond its borders. But it has since expanded and is now responsible for deadly attacks farther away from its home base, including a bloody […]

The Ministry of Interior said the governor of Herat province Islam Jar met with Alim Khan Yasin Gildaye, Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Afghanistan, to discuss various issues around trade. According to the ministry, the two sides discussed the expansion of trade facilities, increasing the volume of trade exchanges between traders of the two countries, reducing customs tariffs, solving the challenges […]

Iran’s deputy ambassador in Kabul, Sayed Hasan Murtazawi, said on Monday that the opponents of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) live in his country as ordinary refugees and they are not allowed to engage in political activities. Murtazawi made the remarks as he met Mawlawi Abdul Kabir, political deputy of the prime minister, in Kabul on Monday. The official […]

Islamabad is expected to start the second phase of forced deportations of Afghan refugees from Monday, April 15. According to reports this phase will also include the deportation of Afghans who have residency permits. This will apply to refugees who have ACC documents, Afghan citizenship card, and POR or certificate of registration with the government of Pakistan. Officials have said […]

The U.S. military has for the first time publicly named the suicide bomber behind the deadly attack at Kabul airport during the chaotic final days of the American withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. The identification was part of findings from a supplemental review ordered by U.S. Central Command to build on the military’s initial investigation by taking into account information […]

US Special Representative for Afghanistan Thomas West met with UAE’s deputy envoy for the United Nations, Mohammad Abu Shahab, discussing the latest developments in Afghanistan, it was announced on Friday. The sides also discussed empowering Afghan women and girls, and the full implementation of UN Security Council resolution 2721, co-penned by the UAE and Japan, UAE Mission to the UN […]

In a Pashtu-language book, the Islamic State Khurasan Province (ISKP) sheds light on the 1992 destruction by extremist Hindus of the 16th-century Babri Mosque in the Indian town of Ayodhya. The book discusses the destruction of the mosque and the Afghan Taliban’s diplomatic relations with the rightwing Hindu government in India.[1] The 17-page booklet, titled “Ram Temple Or Babri Mosque,” […]

A delegation of the Taliban movement has been invited to participate in the “Russia – Islamic World: Kazan Forum,” scheduled for May 14-19, 2024. On April 1, 2024, Zamir Kabulov, the Special Presidential Representative for Afghanistan and Director of the Foreign Ministry’s Second Asia Department, disclosed the Taliban invitation, according to Russia’s state media, TASS.[1] The Taliban have been on […]