An Afghan man residing in Oklahoma has pleaded guilty to plotting a terrorist attack targeting large crowds on US Election Day, the Department of Justice announced on Friday.
Nader Yarahmadi, head of the Bureau for Aliens and Foreign Immigrants Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran, said that from March 2024 to March 2025, a total of 1,579 foreign national children were deported from Iran along with their families.
Zalmay Khalilzad, the former US Special Envoy for Afghan Reconciliation, has criticised recent comments made by the Taliban’s leader in which he denounced democracy and defended the group’s treatment of women.
The Taliban’s Directorate for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice in Herat province has instructed the local traffic authority to ban women from driving, according to an official letter obtained by local media.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reports that more than 10 million people in Afghanistan have been forcibly displaced due to ongoing conflict, persecution, and humanitarian crises, placing the country among the top three globally for displacement.
Spanish police have requested the issuance of an international arrest warrant for Rahim Peerzada, a former Afghan diplomat accused of sexual harassment and assault.
In response to the brutal killing of Kubra Rezai, a 26-year-old Afghan woman in Tehran, the Taliban’s embassy in Iran has condemned the incident and called it a “tragic event.”
The Taliban and their embassy in Tehran have remained silent following the discovery of the mutilated body of Kubra Rezai, a 26-year-old Afghan migrant woman, in a suburb of the Iranian capital.
The dismembered body of Kubra Rezai, a young Afghan migrant woman, has been discovered in the home of a 32-year-old Iranian man in Pakdasht, southeast of Tehran, Ensaf News reported.
Éric Ciotti, leader of France’s right-wing party The Republicans and a member of the National Assembly, met with Ahmad Massoud, head of Afghanistan’s National Resistance Front, during the latter’s visit to Paris this week.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and his Norwegian counterpart, Espen Barth Eide, held talks on the sidelines of the 22nd Oslo Forum, discussing regional developments, including the situation in Afghanistan, according to a statement from Iran’s Foreign Ministry.
Iranian journalists have reported increasing restrictions imposed by the Islamic Republic’s security and judicial institutions on coverage of the murder of Kubra Rezai, an Afghan migrant woman whose mutilated body was discovered earlier this month.
Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has called on the international community to prevent Afghanistan’s isolation and to engage in constructive dialogue with the Taliban.
Alexander Bortnikov, head of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), has warned that ISIS and its affiliates have intensified their operations in Afghanistan, posing a growing threat to regional security.
The 22nd Oslo Forum is set to take place on Wednesday, 11 June, bringing together foreign ministers and senior officials from across the globe to discuss mediation and conflict resolution in an increasingly complex international landscape.
The Iranian Embassy in Kabul has announced that Noor Jalal Jalali, the Taliban’s Minister of Public Health, met with Iranian Health Minister Mohammad Reza Zafarghandi in Tehran to discuss expanding bilateral cooperation in the health sector.
The Taliban has claimed responsibility for a raid on what it described as an ISIS hideout in Kabul, saying two members of the militant group were killed during the operation.
Dozens of protesters were reportedly detained by the Taliban in Afghanistan’s northern Faryab province following a demonstration against the group's police command in Dawlat Abad district, sources told Afghanistan International.
Former Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has attributed the surge in terrorism in the region to the United States’ withdrawal from Afghanistan, citing the fallout as a major contributor to Pakistan’s internal security challenges.
A delegation from the Taliban’s Ministry of Education, led by Deputy Minister Sakhaullah Saeed, has travelled to Russia to participate in the Third International Forum of Ministers of Education, the ministry announced on Monday.
More than 60 Afghan human rights organisations have called on the Dutch government to terminate the diplomatic mission of Asif Rahimi, Afghanistan’s ambassador to the Netherlands, citing his alleged allegiance to the Taliban.
An Iranian official said Monday that negotiations with the Taliban over the Helmand River water rights have yet to yield tangible results, accusing the group of failing to meet their obligations under a decades-old treaty.