Clashes erupted between the Taliban and the resistance movement on Thursday in Gulbahar, the entrance gate of Panjshir province, and both sides used heavy and light weapons. Both sides accused each other of initiating the clash. The resistance movement said the Taliban started the clashes. “The enemy attacked Panjshir province form Andarab route twice and suffered heavy casualties,” said Fahim […]

Taliban co-founder Mullah Baradar will lead a new Afghan government set to be announced shortly, Reuters reported on Friday citing sources in the Taliban. According to the report Baradar, who heads the Taliban’s political office, will be joined by Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob, the son of late Taliban co-founder Mullah Omar, and Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, in senior positions in the […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that there would be no political force to talk to directly if Afghanistan breaks up as a country and called for joint efforts to decide about “legalizing” a political force in the country. Putin made the comment at a forum in Vladivostok where he was asked if Moscow would recognize the Taliban government. […]

In the wake of intense fighting and the rapid transfer of power to the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (also known as the Taliban), people are facing widespread instability, mass displacement, and the disruption of basic services, including health care. Despite the challenges, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams continue to provide essential medical care across all five of our […]

China hopes the Taliban will soon establish an inclusive and representative government in Afghanistan. Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin believed the new Afghan government would crack down on all kinds of terrorist forces. Xinhua news agency quoted Wang as telling reporters at a news conference on Tuesday that with the pullout of US troops, Afghanistan had turned a new […]

Qatar has warned against the isolation of the Taliban who took control of Afghanistan a fortnight ago. Al-Arabiya quoted Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani as saying on Tuesday that recognising the Taliban’s government was not a priority. “We believe that without engagement, we cannot reach…real progress on the security front or on the socioeconomic front,” the minister remarked. […]

The Taliban on Tuesday called on foreign countries to reopen their embassies in Afghanistan, saying the war-torn nation now needed economic independence. After the September 9, 2001 attacks, the United States invaded Afghanistan on October 7 of that year and the Taliban regime was toppled. Then an interim government was set up under the leadership of Hamid Karzai who was […]

Following the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Taliban’s rise to power there, religious scholar Dr. Attia ‘Adlan, a former Egyptian MP and current member of the International Union Of Muslims Scholars (IUMS), which is supported by Qatar and Turkey, published an article on the IUMS website in which he defended the Taliban against its detractors. Forcefully rejecting the fears […]

Marking the final withdrawal of all foreign forces, the Taliban on Tuesday pledged to work with foreign countries to ensure good relations. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said they want to have a relationship, based on international law and mutual respect, with the rest of the world, especially the United States. “The Islamic Emirate wants to have a diplomatic relation with […]

India’s ambassador to Qatar held talks with a top Taliban leader on Tuesday, the Indian foreign ministry said, the first formal diplomatic engagement since the Taliban took over Afghanistan. The envoy, Deepak Mittal, met Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanekzai, the head of the Taliban’s Political Office in Doha, at the request of the Taliban, the foreign ministry said.The foreign ministry said […]