By Fidel Rahmati in Khaama Press online, July 18, 2023Qatar Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, and US National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, had a phone on Monday and discussed the need for continued humanitarian support for the people of Afghanistan. According to a statement, Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the two sides discussed bilateral cooperation, issues of regional and international interests, and the recent development in…
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By Banafsha Binesh in TOLOnews Online, March 20,2023 at 10:14 PMThe Islamic Emirate has conducted 70 military operations in the past year with the aim of suppressing the Khorasan branch of Daesh group in Afghanistan, officials reported. According to government-provided numbers, more than a hundred Daesh fighters have been killed in these operations. The operations of the Islamic Emirate forces intensified against Daesh hideouts in Kabul, Herat, Balkh and other provinces. Ijaz Amin Ahangar, the…
By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, March 20, 2023Afghanistan has asked the UN for assistance and requested wheat storage facilities in response to growing concerns about the country’s drought. The Chamber of agriculture and livestock has called on the UN to help the country amidst concerns over possible droughts. “The international community and other countries need to support Afghanistan under the current situation. The government also has to make wheat storage facilities so…
By Nizamuddin Rezahi in Khaama Press, June 17, 2023Islamabad has reached an agreement with the Taliban’s Ministry of Interior to relocate Tehreek-t-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) members from the border of the two countries to western Afghanistan, a senior Pakistani official on conditions of anonymity told Anadolu news agency. The Pakistani government will bear the financial costs of relocating TTP members to the western parts of Afghanistan, the source said. “The Pakistani government and Taliban administration have…
By Banafsha Binesh in TOLOnews, June 13, 2023 at 8:45 PMNorway’s foreign minister Anniken Huitfeldt announced the ministry “invited three people from the civil service in Kabul to participate in this year’s Oslo Forum,” adding “they are not from the political leadership of the Taliban.” At the forum, which is ongoing now, these representatives are meeting “Afghan civil society and representatives from other countries to talk about the major challenges in Afghanistan,” Huitfeldt said. Islamic…
By Bibi Amina Hakimi in TOLOnews, May 24, 2023 at 9:02 PMDirect flights between Afghanistan and China resumed on Wednesday morning after three years–with Ariana Afghan Airlines conducting the first flight to Urumqi. Speaking at the ceremony of the first flight of Ariana airlines to Urumqi, Ghulam Jailani Wafa, deputy minister of Transport and Civil Aviation (MTCA), said that these flights will have a direct impact on the growth of the country’s economy and will…
By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, May 18, 2023The Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Qatar, Mohammad Bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani, and German Foreign Minister Analena Berbuk discussed the situation in Afghanistan during her visit to Qatar on Wednesday. Both parties made it clear throughout the discussion that the international community must continue to work with the Afghan people, respect human rights, particularly those of women, and support girls’ education.…
By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, May 17, 2023China has been actively managing Afghanistan’s foreign relations as a guarantee to help Afghanistan escape its current state of isolation on the world stage. Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Qin Gang met with Bilawal Bhutto Zardari of Pakistan and Amir Khan Muttaqi, acting Foreign Minister of Taliban, last week in Islamabad to hold talks as part of a China-Afghanistan-Pakistan Foreign Minister’s Dialogue. Afghanistan’s stability…
By Mohammad Farshad Daryosh in TOLOnews April 30, 2023 at 8:24 PMMonday, May 1, the Secretary General of the United Nations will host the Doha Meeting addressing Afghanistan. The UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is to give an update on a review of the world body’s critical relief operation in Afghanistan, ordered in April after the officials of the current government in Afghanistan stopped Afghan women working with UN agencies, diplomatic sources told France 24. According…
By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, April 28, 2023Ahmad Massoud, the National Resistance Front’s (NRF) leader, has pleaded with the international community not to abandon Afghanistan.Ahmad Massoud warned against engaging with the Taliban in an interview with The National while he was in Vienna for a conference of anti-Taliban figures, human rights activists and academicians. “If you think you can co-opt the Taliban with money and diplomatic ties, then you are gravely mistaken,”…
By Nazir Shinwari in TOLOnews Online, March 19,2023 at 8:33 PMActing Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi in an interview with RTA said Daesh has been suppressed and eliminated in Afghanistan. Muttaqi said that the Daesh fighters that are engaged in fighting with the Islamic Emirate came from abroad. “There is no Daesh in Afghanistan, there are no militant groups in Afghanistan. If any incident occurs here, it originated from abroad. It is good news for…