Iran’s foreign minister says it is willing to reposition an Iran-led Afghan militia in Syria to fight Islamic State forces in Afghanistan.

“They (robbers) have destroyed us. I am a taxi driver, but I can’t go anywhere,” said Abdul Matin, a resident in Kabul. Armed robbers on Sunday night robbed a pharmacist in the west of Kabul, stealing his money and mobile phones.

Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS), Afghanistan’s National Power Company, said Tuesday that electricity imported from Uzbekistan for Kabul and some other provinces has been cut due to technical issues regarding the neighboring country’s power plants.

The Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS) chief Ahmad Zia Saraj confirmed Tuesday that a Chinese spy ring had been arrested in Kabul.

Nine Taliban insurgents, including a recently released prisoner, died in an airstrike in Batikot district of eastern Nangarhar province, the governor’s media office said.

US President-elect Joe Biden’s national security adviser, Jack Sullivan, said Sunday night the Taliban’s commitment to severing ties with al-Qaeda must not only be proven in words but more importantly in practice.

Ahmad Zia Saraj, head of the National Directorate of Security (NDS), told a Wolesi Jirga (Lower House of Parliament) session on Monday that the Taliban has not cut its ties with “foreign terrorists” nor has the group reduced levels of violence as per the US-Taliban agreement signed in February last year.

U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad met with Pakistan’s Army Chief Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa on Monday and discussed the Afghan peace process, the military said.

Afghanistan has let off the 10 Chinese nationals caught on 10 December for operating a terror cell in the capital city of Kabul and allowed them to leave the country, people familiar with the matter said on Monday. The 10 members of the module were flown out of the country in a plane arranged by the Chinese government.

Bismillah Adil Aimaq is the fifth journalist killed in Afghanistan in the past two months. An Afghan journalist and human rights activist was shot and killed on Friday by unidentified gunmen in western Afghanistan, the fifth journalist to be killed in the war-ravaged country in the past two months, a provincial spokesman said.