Jason Criss Howk, president of the Global Friends of Afghanistan (GFA), has criticised the National Resistance Front (NRF) for its recent statements condemning Israeli strikes on Iran. He accused the group of aligning with a regime he described as “anti-Western terrorists.”
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has said that Tehran does not seek to escalate the current conflict with Israel, unless war is “imposed” on the country.
Ali Asghar Hejazi, deputy chief of staff to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, is reportedly in contact with Russian authorities to arrange the potential evacuation of himself and his family, according to information obtained by Iran International.
At least 215 people have been killed and 648 others injured in Israel’s recent attacks on Iran, according to the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), which is affiliated with the Human Rights In Iran organisation.
Trade between Iran and Afghanistan has been disrupted as cargo truck crossings at the shared border have been halted, sources told Afghanistan International, following rising tensions between Iran and Israel.
A Kenyan court has granted former Afghan lawmaker Zahir Qadir a one-month extension to file an appeal against an extradition order to the United States, sources close to the case told Afghanistan International.
Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of Iran’s former monarch, has called on Iranian citizens to engage in widespread civil disobedience, claiming the Islamic Republic is at its most vulnerable point after decades of corruption and mismanagement.
Iran’s military claims it has shot down two Israeli F-35 fighter jets in its airspace, marking what it describes as the first such incident involving the advanced US-made aircraft.
The Israeli military has released the names and photographs of 15 senior Iranian officials it claims were killed in recent airstrikes conducted over the past two days.
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.
Iranian authorities have announced the arrest of a suspect in the murder of Kubra Rezai, a 26-year-old Afghan migrant woman whose mutilated body was discovered earlier this month in Varamin, south of Tehran.
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.