Taliban Says Relations With Iran Will Not Be Weakened
Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid has highlighted similarities between the Taliban administration in Afghanistan and Iran’s Islamic Republic, describing both as religious governments committed to the unity of Muslims. Mujahid said…
Muttaqi, UN official discuss future engagement in phone call
Afghanistan’s Taliban-run Ministry of Foreign Affairs says Amir Khan Muttaqi held a telephone conversation with Rosemary DiCarlo, the UN Under-Secretary-General, focusing on future engagement and cooperation under the Doha process.…
Taliban Intensify Security Crackdown in Badakhshan, Local Sources Report
Local sources in Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province claim that the Taliban have intensified security operations following the detention of individuals linked to Juma Khan Fateh, with arrests, house-to-house searches and weapons…
Sarah Adams Claims Taliban Used Infiltration Network to Kill Hasib Panjshiri
Former CIA officer Sarah Adams has claimed that the killing of Hasib Panjshiri, a field commander of Afghanistan’s National Resistance Front (NRF), was the result of a complex and pre-planned…
Anti-Taliban fighters in Andarab signal readiness for operations
A newly emerged video from the Andarab district of Baghlan province shows armed fighters affiliated with Jamiat-e-Islami declaring their readiness to launch coordinated offensives against Taliban forces across Afghanistan. In…
THE PATIENCE THAT RAN OUT: Pakistan did not start this war; it stopped absorbing the cost of someone else’s
By Dr Muhammad Shahid For nearly five years, Pakistan did something most nations facing a sustained terrorist campaign from across their border do not do: it waited. It absorbed a…
Pakistan conducts intelligence-based strike in Afghanistan following surge in cross-border attacks
Pakistan has carried out targeted intelligence-based airstrikes in the Nangarhar region of eastern Afghanistan, following a series of devastating cross-border terrorist attacks inside Pakistani territory. The security developments mark a…
TTP commander Khalid Swati killed in Afghanistan’s Kunar province:
A senior commander of the banned militant group Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), identified as Khalid Swati, has reportedly been killed in Afghanistan’s Kunar province, according to social media posts circulating on…
The school that won’t stay closed
When Kabul fell, a headmistress burned her own student records rather than let the Taliban find them. Four years on, the school she saved has finally found a permanent address…