China’s President Xi Jinping is expected to visit Saudi Arabia later this year, representing an effort to take advantage of strains in U.S.-Saudi ties and showcase China as a rising global power. Unlike Russia, China is a major consumer of oil, and energy issues will almost certainly constitute a central focus of Xi’s visit. China has been broadening its relations […]

The latest issue of “Voice of Khurasan,” an English-language monthly magazine published by Al-Azaim Foundation, the media arm of the Islamic State’s Khurasan Province (ISIS-K), eulogizes the slain Indian jihadi fighter Abu Khalid al-Hindi, condemns Egyptian Islamic scholar Yusuf Al-Qaradawi for digressing from shari’a and for supporting the regimes in Qatar and Turkey, and is sharply critical of Hamas, the […]

Turkey is routinely pushing tens of thousands of Afghans back at its land border with Iran or deporting them directly to Afghanistan with little or no examination of their claims for international protection, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Friday. The 73-page report, “‘No One Asked Me Why I Left Afghanistan,’” says that Turkey has stepped up […]

The Ministry of Interior of Turkey has said since the beginning of this year, it has deported more than 57,000 Afghan citizens who entered the country “illegally”. Anadolu Agency reported that on Saturday Turkish government officials reported 57,174 Afghan citizens have been returned to their country this year. Based on this news, the Turkish government has deported a total of […]

Zabihullah Mujahid, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s (IEA) spokesman was upbeat about his recent trip to Turkey saying the visit opened new doors for economic relations with Turkey and the rest of the world. Speaking at a news conference on Saturday in Kabul, Mujahid said that while in Turkey, he met with and held talks with Turkish officials, scholars of […]

On September 20, in his address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan once again criticized India for failing to resolve the dispute with Pakistan and establish “just, lasting peace and prosperity in Kashmir”. Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar “hit back at the Turks” by meeting his Cypriot and Greek counterparts Ioannis […]

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said this week Tehran was ready to host an extraordinary meeting of foreign ministers of Afghanistan’s neighboring states in order to help ensure regional security. Speaking at a meeting in Tehran with Mohammad Sadiq Khan, the Pakistani prime minister’s special envoy for Afghanistan, Amirabdollahian described the relations between Tehran and Islamabad as excellent and underlined […]

The US officials met in-person with the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s (IEA) officials on Saturday for the first time since the US claimed it had killed al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in late July, CNN reported quoting two officials familiar with the talks. According to CNN, the Biden administration sent the CIA’s deputy director and the top State Department official […]

The President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev called for the rapid completion of a corridor linking his country to Iran via Turkmenistan. In a meeting with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, held on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Samarkand on Friday, Tokayev highlighted the achievements of his recent visit to Iran. He also stressed the need to accelerate […]

The Iranian Ambassador to Afghanistan, Bahadur Aminian, says at least 6,000 Afghan citizens enter Iran every day and that only about half have visas. The rest enter illegally, he said, adding that these migrants risk falling victim to human traffickers. Speaking to the BBC Aminian said the only way to reduce the wave of refugees into Iran was to create […]