A total of 5,051 individuals have been arrested on drug trafficking charges in the past year, Interior Ministry officials said on Saturday. Mohammadullah Ahmadi, the operational director of the counter-narcotics department of the Interior Ministry, told a conference that those arrested also included four foreign nationals. In addition, more than 500 tons of various drugs and drug utensils as well […]

Leading members of the fundamentalist group blame supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada for the country’s unsustainable drift The clash of internal currents is wearing the movement down a year and a half after it regained power in Afghanistan. He did not even appear in public when the Taliban regained power two decades later. Hibatullah Akhundzada praised his movement’s advance in every […]

US State Department spokesman Ned Price said on Wednesday that the signing of the Doha agreement in 2020 had ‘weakened’ Washington’s partners in Afghanistan and empowered the Islamic Emirate (IEA). Addressing a press conference, Price said in answer to a question on the third anniversary of the signing of the deal that “the agreement empowered the Taliban (IEA), it weakened […]

Thomas Nicholson, the European Union’s special representative for Afghanistan, met on Thursday with the Islamic Emirate’s Foreign Minster Amir Khan Muttaqi. On twitter, Hafiz Zia Ahmad Takal, deputy spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said the two sides discussed political issues, fighting corruption and security issues. In the meeting, Nicholson praised the Islamic Emirate for their efforts to ensure […]

The leader of the Islamic Emirate, Mawlavi Hibatullah Akhundzada, has met with a number of scholars from Kandahar, Kabul, Kapisa, Baghlan, Faryab, Khost and Nangarhar provinces, the IEA’s spokesman said in a statement on Thursday. According to the statement, the Ministers of National Defense, Interior, Foreign Affairs and Communications and Information Technology were also present at the meeting. The meeting […]

The Afghan Taliban have been in a constant struggle to have international legitimacy—despite the fact that—the Islamic fundamentalist has fought for two decades against the US-backed government. The most thrilling and intricate phenomenon for the Taliban is effective foreign policy. The regime has been fustigated for not taking the international norms into due consideration to have the international status of […]

China’s Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin said this week that Beijing calls on the United States to immediately return Afghanistan’s central bank assets. Addressing a press conference on Friday, Wang said in response to a US judge ruling against families of September 11 victims being given $3.5 billion from Afghanistan’s frozen funds that the US must “reflect on its action […]

The Afghan Taliban told the Pakistani delegation that the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) – also known as the Pakistani Taliban – has no presence in Afghanistan. The Afghan Taliban also claimed that all members of the TTP leadership had relocated to Pakistan after the Taliban captured Kabul Kabul: Pakistan has warned of military action inside Afghanistan if the Afghan Taliban continues […]

Operatives of the Taliban government in Kabul are trying to identify and retaliate against Afghans who cooperated with the 20-year American military and reconstruction effort, using fingerprint records, gun records and other methods to sniff them out and target them for retribution, according to a U.S. government report. Eighteen months after President Biden withdrew the last U.S. combat forces from […]

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s (IEA) spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said Tuesday that a top Daesh commander had been killed in an operation in Kabul on Sunday night. According to a statement issued by Mujahid, IEA forces killed Qari Fateh, the regional Daesh “intelligence and operations chief”, during the operation in Khair Khana area. Mujahid stated that the Daesh commander had […]