Following the killing of a former Afghan commander in Tehran, the Afghanistan Freedom Front (AFF) has called on Iran to take urgent measures, in line with international law, to protect former Afghan military personnel.
In less than four months, a second anti-Taliban commander has been killed in Iran, raising serious concerns among former Afghan military personnel living in the country.
Sirajuddin Haqqani, the Taliban’s interior minister, said the group remains committed to the Doha Agreement.
The Taliban-run Ministry of Finance said on Wednesday that 12,000 people across 30 institutions have been confirmed as eligible for retirement following an assessment process carried out over the past four months.
Emomali Rahmon on Wednesday inaugurated a tank training ground and four new military outposts along Tajikistan’s border with Afghanistan, as Dushanbe steps up efforts to strengthen border security.
The National Resistance Front, led by Ahmad Massoud, has called on Iran to carry out a serious, transparent and independent investigation into the assassination of General Ikramuddin Sari, a former Afghan police commander.
Two Tajik border guards were killed in an armed clash with militants who crossed from Afghanistan into Tajikistan, the country’s State Committee for National Security said.
Russia is interested in building a railway through Afghanistan as part of efforts to expand transport links with countries in the Global South, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Overchuk said.
Iran has invited the Taliban’s labour and social affairs minister to Tehran to discuss expanding bilateral cooperation, including job creation, labour market access, vocational training and the management of migrant affairs.
Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said the arrest of an Islamic State member in Pakistan was carried out based on intelligence provided by the Taliban, describing the group as a “sinister phenomenon” whose safe havens must be dismantled.
The Taliban’s Ministry of Mines and Petroleum says Indian investors have expressed interest in investing in Afghanistan’s mining sector, particularly in copper and iron extraction.
Iranian border authorities have confirmed that 10 Afghan migrants died from hypothermia while attempting to cross into Iran amid severe winter conditions.
Rapualla Ahmadze, an Afghan refugee, was sentenced on Tuesday to nine years in prison in Scotland after being convicted of raping a 17-year-old girl. Police said the attack took place in a park in Scotland in October last year.
Local sources say the Taliban’s Directorate for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice in Khost has ordered government press officers and spokespersons to stop giving video interviews to the media.
India has said it will meet Afghanistan’s pharmaceutical needs over the long term, signalling a move to reduce the country’s dependence on medicine imports from Pakistan.
An Iranian pharmaceutical industry official has warned that drug smuggling to neighbouring countries, including Afghanistan, is contributing to serious medicine shortages in Iran.
The Taliban Supreme Court says more than 1,000 people were sentenced to prison by its military courts over a three-month period this year.
Security sources told Afghanistan International on Monday that one of the suicide attackers involved in the assault on the Wana military college in South Waziristan, Pakistan, was an Afghan national identified as Janullah Ayubi.
A group of Pakistani clerics meeting under the banner of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam criticised the Afghan Taliban for denying girls access to education, saying the policy has no basis in Islamic law.
Germany has relocated a further 141 Afghan refugees from Pakistan, nearly four years after the fall of Kabul, as part of efforts to complete long-delayed admissions promised by a previous government.
Former Afghan interior minister Omar Dawoodzai has criticised comments by Pakistan’s army chief, saying the Taliban represent only a small fraction of Afghanistan’s population and should not be equated with the Afghan people.
Several government employees in Khost province say the Taliban have detained them for up to 24 hours and then dismissed them from their jobs for having what officials deem to be short beards.