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 […]
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Afghanistan Content Report: February 3 – February 9
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 […]
Read more ›Mullah Baradar urges Russians to invest in the country
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, […]
Read more ›Two former Guantanamo prisoners return to Afghanistan
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 […]
Read more ›In Interview With Afghan Taliban’s State-Owned Pashtu-Language ‘Hewad Daily,’ Hamas Spokesman Husam Badran Says Taliban’s Defeat Of U.S. Inspired Hamas: ‘This Experience [Of Afghanistan] And Other Nations Such As Iraq And Algeria Taught Us To Choose The Path Of Jihad And Not To Be Disappointed On This Path’
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 […]
Read more ›Joe Biden issues order extending freeze on Afghanistan’s foreign reserves
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 […]
Read more ›La relation de la Chine et de la Russie avec les Taliban inquiète les États-Unis
La reconnaissance diplomatique du gouvernement taliban en Afghanistan le 31 janvier 2024 par la Chine doit être mise en relation avec deux autres mesures de politique régionale de grande portée prises par Pékin dans l’ère de l’après-guerre froide – les Cinq de Shanghai en 1996 – plus tard renommées Organisation de coopération de Shanghai en 2001 – et l’initiative les […]
Read more ›TTP And ISKP Presence In Afghanistan – OpEd
Around the world, people are very worried about Afghanistan’s security, especially since terrorist groups like the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) and Tehreek e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) are still there and moving around. Thomas West, who works for America in Afghanistan, told the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee for Central Asia about those severe fears. West’s comments show that those terrorist […]
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Read more ›Afghan army chief slams his Pakistani counterpart over ‘insulting’ remarks
Fasihuddin Fitrah, Afghan army chief of staff, called the recent remarks of his Pakistani counterpart, Asim Munir, over security as “insulting”, saying it suggests desperation of Pakistani government officials. Munir recently said that the life of a single Pakistani is more important than the entire Afghanistan. Enayatullah Khwarazmi, the spokesman of the Ministry of Defense, said on X on Saturday […]
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