UN deputy envoy in Afghanistan, Markus Potzel, on Sunday met with the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s (IEA) Deputy Prime Minister for Administrative Affairs, Abdul Salam Hanafi, and called on IEA to reconsider ban on women in universities and NGOs. Noting that 28 million Afghans need urgent international aid, Potzel said that continuation of the existing situation would force the international […]

Iran’s interior ministry says it has approved residency permits for more than one million Afghan refugees currently in the country. Sadiq Rezadoost, Iran’s Director General of Foreign Nationals and Immigrant Affairs of the Ministry of Interior, said that all nationals who came to Iran after the political developments in Afghanistan last year, or who were given papers in the past […]

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s (IEA) spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said Tuesday that the IEA wants good relations with all neighboring countries, including Pakistan, and that the spate of “false” statements by Pakistani officials is regrettable. This was in response to recent remarks and a statement by Pakistani officials over the use of Afghan soil by militants against Pakistan. In a […]

Nooruddin Azizi, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s (IEA) minister of commerce and industry met with representatives of the private sector of the Republic of Tatarstan and Iran in Kabul on Thursday where they discussed investment opportunities in the country. In a series of tweets, the ministry said that the deputy minister of mines and petroleum and representatives of the ministry […]

Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari says it has been communicated to Afghanistan that Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is Pakistan’s red line, Pakistan’s media outlets reported. “The Afghan Taliban (Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan) have been told that our (Pakistan and Afghanistan) ties will not remain fine if the TTP is not stopped,” Bilawal said while speaking to the media at the Pakistani […]

Martin Griffiths, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator told a Security Council meeting this week that 97 percent of Afghans live in poverty. He also said that two thirds of the population need humanitarian assistance and 20 million people face acute hunger. According to Griffiths, half the population in Afghanistan urgently needs access to clean […]

The Taliban on Tuesday released two Americans who had been detained in Afghanistan, State Department spokesperson Ned Price said. The releases were announced as the United Nations Security Council was meeting about Afghanistan. The move was a goodwill gesture — not part of a prisoner swap, he said. “We are providing these two U.S. nationals with all appropriate assistance,” Price […]

On December 12, 2022, supporters of the Islamic State (ISIS) published posts on social media celebrating a reported attack on a hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan and speculating that it was planned and carried out by ISIS operatives in Afghanistan. As of this reporting, no statement has been issued by ISIS official media about the attack. ISIS Supporters Celebrate Attack “Allah […]

Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) on Tuesday released two American nationals in what appeared to be a goodwill gesture, said State Department spokesperson Ned Price, who indicated that the IEA were holding other US citizens. Price declined to identify the freed Americans, and he said they were not released as “part of any swap of prisoners or detainees. There was […]

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s (IEA) decision to suspend university education for women and girls has drawn strong condemnation from international organizations and foreign governments. The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said that preventing half of the population from contributing meaningfully to society and the economy will have a “devastating impact” on the whole country. “It will expose […]