Hassan Kazemi Qomi, Iran’s Special Representative for Afghanistan accused Washington of trying to turn Afghanistan into a geographical region critical for its neighbours.
On Wednesday, several women belonging to the families of members of the previous government’s security forces protested against their forced expulsion from their homes by the Taliban, in Herat city.
In an exclusive interview with Afghanistan International, Mansoor Ahmad Khan, former Pakistan ambassador to Afghanistan, said that despite the Taliban's takeover of Kabul, families of many of the group’s leaders still live in Pakistan.
Najibulllah Haqqani, the Taliban’s Minister of Communications and Information Technology, announced that 98 percent of telephone SIM cards have been registered in Afghanistan.
The Taliban-controlled Central Bank of Afghanistan announced that the inflation rate has decreased by six percent as compared to the previous two years.
Haalvsh news agency, which publishes news from Iran's Sistan and Baluchistan region, reported that an Afghan refugee has been killed by gunfire in the Saravan area of the province.
Mohsen Aminzadeh, the former deputy foreign minister of Iran, said that Iran's opportunities in Afghanistan have been severely damaged.
The Afghanistan Freedom Front (AFF) has claimed that the front has killed one Taliban member and wounded three others in an attack at the entrance of the Faizabad airport in Badakhshan province.
The National Resistance Front (NRF) led by Ahmad Massoud announced that two Taliban members have been killed in a guerilla attack in Badakhshan on Monday night.
Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, the Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic, said that the Taliban attacked the Consulate General of Iran in Mazar-e-Sharif in 1998 and "committed a tragedy”.
Iranian’s former foreign minister Javad Zarif said that the Taliban hates journalists, and diplomats.
The Taliban consulate in Karachi announced that 44 Afghans, including children, have been released from the prisons of Pakistan's Sindh province on Monday.
Local sources confirmed to Afghanistan International that Yama Khalidi, a former local police commander, has been killed by "unknown armed men" in Sar-e Pol province.
Nasser Kanaani, the spokesperson of Iran's foreign ministry, announced that an Iranian delegation is on a visit to Kabul to hold talks with the Taliban officials on various issues.
Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Syed Asim Munir expressed his country’s concerns over the presence of sanctuaries available to banned terror outfits and liberty of action they enjoy on Afghan soil.
The Taliban announced that they have entrusted four blocks of iron mines in Ghurian district of Herat province and one block of a lead mine in Tolak district of Ghor province to Iranian, Turkish, British, and Afghan companies.
Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) accused Pakistani officials of misusing the tribal jirga to blame the Afghan Taliban for instability in the country and to justify their failed policies.
Reliable sources confirmed to Afghanistan International that Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada, the Taliban leader, has issued a decree which announced Jihad in Pakistan as forbidden (Haram).
Parviz Ghasemzadeh, the commander of the Zabul border regiment in Iran, announced that the country's border guards had arrested 156 Afghans at the joint borders of Iran and Afghanistan.
The National Resistance Front (NRF) announced the killing of four members of the Taliban in an ambush on Friday night at Moradbeg Fort, Shakar Dara District of Kabul.
Considering the recent restrictions by the Taliban on Shia religious practices in Afghanistan, FORUM-ASIA has called for urgent and concerted international action to protect Afghanistan’s Shia and Hazara community.