In January 2024, Chinese president Xi Jinping accepted the credentials of the ambassador of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (the Taliban) to China. And in September 2023 China was the first country to name a new ambassador to the Islamic Emirate since August 2021. Today, over a dozen countries maintain diplomatic representation in Kabul, though none have formally recognized the […]

Iran’s Special Envoy for Afghanistan Hassan Kazemi Qomi has said that Europe should not use humanitarian aid to Afghanistan as a hostage for regional ties. Qomi made the comments in a meeting with his EU counterpart, according to the Iranian diplomat’s post on his X account. He said that he had a frank and constructive discussion with the EU’s Special […]

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) on Sunday dismissed concerns raised about the country at the Munich Security Conference, calling them “baseless.” IEA’s spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, said on X that security is fully maintained throughout Afghanistan and that no foreign group is allowed to operate in the country. “During the two-and-a-half-year rule of the Islamic Emirate, there was no threat […]

Acting Foreign Minister Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi said Wednesday in a meeting with Russia’s ambassador Dmitry Zhirnov that if the Islamic Emirate’s conditions are not taken into consideration ahead of the Doha meeting, then the IEA would prefer to sit this out. In answer to a question by Zhirnov on whether the IEA would attend the Doha gathering of special […]

Ambassador of the Republic of Azerbaijan to Afghanistan Ilham Mammadov paid a courtesy call to Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi to present the official letter from Azerbaijan’s foreign ministry regarding the opening of their embassy in Kabul, the ministry said in a statement Thursday. IEA’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abdul Qahar Balkhi said in a post on X that the meeting […]

Afghanistan Content Report Please note that all items this issue are concerning ISIS-K Table of contents Main points (Pro-ISIS online chatter) ISIS Al-Naba Newsletter Edition 429, Published February 8, 2024 There were no ISIS-K news items in this week’s al-Naba. Pro-ISIS Online Chatter February 3: Pro-ISIS post on Telegram claiming that Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam has stated that it is permissible to […]

Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, Afghanistan’s Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs, met with Ruslan Adelgiriyev, Advisor to the President of the Russian Federation and Special Representative on Climate Change, at his office on Sunday. Dmitry Zhirnov, the Russian Ambassador in Kabul, also attended the meeting, Baradar’s office said. According to the office their discussions encompassed collaborative economic and trade initiatives, […]

Abdul Karim and Abdul Zahir Saber, who have been living in Oman since being released from Guantanamo Bay in 2017, arrived in Kabul on Monday morning, the ministry of interior said. According to a statement issued by Abdul Matin Qani, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Interior, Zahir and Karim were imprisoned in Guantanamo in 2002 and 2003 respectively. Both […]

On February 3, 2024, the Afghan Taliban’s state-owned Pashtu-language newspaper “Hewad Daily” published an interview with Husam Badran, the spokesman of Hamas, in which he said that the defeat of the U.S. and NATO forces by the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA, i.e., the Afghan Taliban) in 2021 as well as similar experiences against occupation forces in other countries such […]

In a message to Congress on the continuation of the “National Emergency With Respect to the Widespread Humanitarian Crisis in Afghanistan and the Potential for a Deepening Economic Collapse in Afghanistan,” US President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that Afghanistan’s foreign reserves would remain frozen beyond February 11. Biden issued the original executive order on the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan […]