Afghanistan

Clashes broke out between Afghanistan's Taliban and Pakistani forces this week on the border between the two nations, in an incident the Taliban claims was ignited by Pakistan building...

China said, on Thursday, that the US-blocked Afghan foreign reserves should be returned immediately so that Afghanistan could utilise them independently, Anadolu News Agency reports. "The frozen assets are...

Muslims continue to be target of hate, bullying, discrimination, says Council on American-Islamic Relations

Canada will accept some 1,000 Afghans who fled the Taliban takeover of their homeland and have been held for months in a makeshift refugee centre in the United Arab...

"It turned out that Syria is our sacred land," wrote a Russian blogger sarcastically in 2016 following attempts by some public figures to recast Syria as part of Russia...

Al-Qaeda's Yemen branch have released a video on Saturday showing a UN worker who was abducted more than six months ago, according to a report by the US-based SITE...

Afghan refugees, who escape from their chaotic and war-torn country, are pushed back by Iranian and Turkish authorities at the border, including by unlawfully opening fire on men, women and...

The Imam of the Grand Mosque in Makkah, Sheikh Ṣaliḥ Ibn ʻAbd Allāh Ibn Ḥumayd, prayed to the Almighty during the Friday prayer last week, to "bring annihilation upon...

A judge in the United States has recommended that the victims of the 9/11 attacks and their families not be allowed to receive billions of dollars in Afghanistan's Central...

The Taliban government in Afghanistan has made official statements questioning US allegations that Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri was killed at his home in the capital, Kabul, in an air...

Hundreds of Afghan refugees and migrants held a protest in the UAE where they have been living in limbo since they were evacuated from Afghanistan following the Taliban takeover...

Politicians in Pakistan rise to power and fall from grace with alarming regularity, so much so that not a single prime minister has ever completed a full term in...

Non-intervention principle in international law Article 2.7 of the United Nations (UN) Charter provides that "Nothing contained in the present  Charter  shall  authorize  the  United  Nations  to  intervene  in ...

No doubt emboldened by US President Joe Biden's recent visit and matey fist bump with Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman, a Saudi judge has just handed out the longest...

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan has been in existence for one year now, but change has been agonisingly slow; early promises on women's rights are as yet unrealised; and...

Shortly after 10pm on 15 August 2021, a small troop of Taliban fighters entered the Presidential Palace in Kabul

On 15 August 2021, the world looked on with trepidation as the situation in Afghanistan reached a critical juncture with the Afghan Taliban assuming power in the country. The...

The Taliban government in Afghanistan has agreed to resupply Iran with water from the Helmand River as per the 1973 Helmand Water Agreement, Iranian Energy Minister Ali Akbar Mehrabian...

Ambassador Mohammad Sadiq, Pakistan’s Special Representative to Afghanistan has consented to be the Chief Guest

Police in the US State of New Mexico announced yesterday that they have arrested and charged a man in connection with a string of murders targeting four Muslim men,...

For some time now, Al-Qaeda had stopped being the primary target of policy and counterterrorist experts. The erstwhile most dangerous terrorist group in the war on terror following its...

The United States said yesterday that it has "no DNA confirmation" of the death of Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri, who was apparently killed in a drone attack in the...

US President Joe Biden has announced that Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri has been killed in a drone strike in Afghanistan. "Justice has been delivered and this terrorist leader is...

Clashes between Taliban forces and Iran border guards on Sunday have left at least one dead on the Afghanistan side, an Afghan police official said, Reuters reported. "We have...

These are troubling times for the men who claim to run the world's greatest democracy. They have meddled so much in other countries' democratic systems and undermined so many...

Jihadist network Al-Qaeda is positioned to overtake Daesh as the pre-eminent terrorist group threatening international security, according to a new report published on Tuesday by the UN. Citing intelligence...

In a blog entry, reflecting on the G20 Foreign Ministers' meeting in Bali, Indonesia, on 7-8 July, the High Representative of the European Union, Josep Borrell, seems to have...

The Swedish Supreme Court has stopped the extradition of a man Turkiye says is a senior member of the Gulenist movement, Anadolu reported local media outlets saying. The court...

More than 50 detainees and unarmed men were killed by British troops in Afghanistan, according to newly obtained military reports and an investigation by the BBC, Anadolu Agency reported....

Arjomand takes us into the critical and largely invisible work of the media fixer. Defining what  fixers do is difficult as their role can be quite fluid but, essentially,...

The Taliban and the United Arab Emirates are poised to strike a deal for the Gulf nation to run Kabul Airport and several others in Afghanistan that could be...

The death toll from an earthquake in Afghanistan hit 1,000, disaster management officials said, with more than 600 injured, and the toll expected to grow as information trickles in from remote mountain villages.