By Masood Farivar VOA News September 7, 2024 Washington — Shunned by the West for over three years, Afghanistan’s Taliban scored a diplomatic victory of sorts this week when the small Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan quietly removed the group from its list of banned terrorist organizations. The move underscores warming ties between the Taliban, in
Afghanistan International: The National Resistance Front (NRF) announced on Wednesday that Ahmad Massoud would have a virtual meeting with the Chairman of the US House Foreign Affairs Committee, Michael McCaul. The Front stated that a delegation representing Massoud would travel to Washington. Following requests for the presence of the NRF leader in the Foreign Affairs
8am: Recent intelligence indicates potential connections between Khorasani and the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP). Video evidence and social media posts suggest his unit includes former ISKP operatives, raising suspicions of a strategic pivot toward this rival group. His vocal criticisms of the Taliban’s ethnic policies and the emerging power struggle within its ranks further
Afghanistan International: The leader of the National Resistance Front (NRF) Ahmad Massoud has urged policymakers in Washington to heed the recommendations of the Hudson Institute, which has called for support for the NRF. Massoud stated that the Taliban are exploiting the world’s fatigue regarding Afghanistan to maintain their rule and continue suppressing the people, particularly
Afghanistan International: Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Wednesday, August 21, that it has officially recognised a Taliban diplomat as the Chargé d’Affaires of the Afghan Embassy in the country. The ministry stated that the appointment of Mohammad Rahman Rahmani is significant for the development of relations between the two nations. Last month, Turkmenistan,
AP: The United Arab Emirates on Wednesday accepted the credentials of the Taliban’s ambassador to the oil-rich Gulf Arab state, the biggest diplomatic coup for Afghanistan’s rulers who are not officially recognized as the country’s legitimate government. The development, the first Taliban ambassador since one was appointed to China last December, underscored the international divide
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 17, 2024 The Afghan Taliban’s acting prime minister, Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund, who is on a UN sanctions list, is receiving medical treatment in a hospital in the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.), officials said. U.A.E. President Muhammad bin Zayed al-Nahyan visited the Taliban leader “to inquire about his health,” a
Ariana: Uzbek Prime Minister Abdulla Nigmatovich Aripov said in a meeting with Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi that he intends to increase diplomatic relations with Afghanistan and may accept the Islamic Emirate’s ambassador in Tashkent in the near future, the ministry said in a statement on Saturday. Click here to read more (external link).
By Abubakar Siddique Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 15, 2024 Days after the Taliban seized power in 2021, Lieutenant General Faiz Hameed, the powerful head of Pakistan’s notorious Inter-Services Intelligence agency, took what seemed a victory lap in the Afghan capital, Kabul. “Please don’t worry — everything will be OK,” he told a Western journalist
Khaama: Amir Khan Muttaqi, the Acting Foreign Minister of the Taliban, stated on the eve of the third anniversary of the fall of the republic that they had predicted the escape of Ashraf Ghani, the former President of Afghanistan. In an interview with BBC, Muttaqi said, “Ashraf Ghani was given power very easily by the