Iranian official claims most foreigners in Iranian prisons are Afghans

Askar Jalalian, a senior official from Iran’s interior ministry, has said the majority of foreign prisoners in his country’s jails are Afghans. According to Jalalian, there...

Sri Lanka advance in World Cup qualifying as Ireland crash out

Sri Lanka powered into the Super Six stage of the Cricket World Cup qualifying tournament with a crushing 133-run win over Ireland on Sunday that eliminated...

Continuation of sanctions against IEA is ‘cruel and unjust’

The Deputy Spokesman of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) Bilal Karimi describes the continuation of sanctions on the travel of the Islamic Emirate’s senior officials...

One killed, nine injured in roller coaster crash in Sweden

One person was killed and nine injured, including children, in a roller coaster accident at the Grona Lund amusement park in the Swedish capital on Sunday,...

Tahawol: IEA supreme leader’s Eid ul-Adha message discussed

Tahawol: IEA supreme leader’s Eid ul-Adha message discussed

Saar: Calls for removing travel ban on IEA officials discussed

Widespread fire rages through Nuristan and Kunar forests

More than 180 hectares of forest in Afghanistan’s eastern Kunar and Nuristan provinces is on fire, officials said on Sunday. Shafiullah Rahimi, a spokesman for the...

Private companies start extracting marble at newly regulated Baghlan mine

Two private companies have started extracting marble from a mine in Baghlan province that was mined illegally in the past, officials confirmed.  The companies have a...

ODI World Cup Qualifiers: West Indies penalized for slow over-rate vs Zimbabwe

West Indies have been fined 60 percent of their match fee for maintaining a slow over-rate against Zimbabwe in their ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup Qualifier...

China’s envoy to UN calls for sanctions against IEA to be lifted

Zhang Jun, China’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, has said the United States and the West should lift sanctions against the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan...

IEA supreme leader issues Eid ul-Adha message

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s (IEA) supreme leader Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada issued his Eid ul-Adha message on Sunday and wished all Muslims in the country and...

Kabul’s exports to Islamabad total’s $600 million in first 6 months of this year

The Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Investment (ACC) says the country’s exports to Pakistan totalled $600 million in the first six months of this year. According...

Chechen leader offers to help put down Wagner mutiny

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said on Saturday his forces were ready to help put down a mutiny by Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin and to use...

Pakistan army says two civilians killed by Indian forces

Pakistan’s army claimed on Saturday that two civilians were killed by Indian forces in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, the first such conflict since a...

Tahawol: India, US’s talks on Afghanistan discussed

Rebel Russian mercenaries barrel towards Moscow

Mutinous Russian mercenary fighters barrelled towards Moscow on Saturday after seizing a southern city overnight, with Russia’s military firing on them from the air but seemingly...

Saar: Acting PM’s visit with UN’s coordinator for Afghanistan discussed

IEA approves test run of gas, oil from Turkmenistan to Pakistan via Afghanistan

The Islamic Emirate’s Office of the Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs tweeted on Saturday that a trial phase to transport gas and oil overland via...

Baradar addresses Kandahar police recruits at graduation ceremony 

The Islamic Emirate’s Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar Akhund, said on Saturday police forces need to behave in public and represent...