Russian media, citing the country’s Ministry of Defense, report that Vasily Osmakov, Russia’s Deputy Defense Minister, held talks on Wednesday in Moscow with Mohammad Farid, the Deputy Defense Minister of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan for Strategy and Policy.

According to the reports, the meeting focused on the current situation and prospects for expanding cooperation in areas of mutual interest between the two sides.

Russian sources said that at the conclusion of the talks, both parties agreed to take further joint steps aimed at establishing more regular and systematic cooperation.

So far, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan has not issued an official statement regarding the meeting or its outcomes.

Local officials in Nangarhar province report that seven members of a single family were killed and one person injured after the roof of their house collapsed in the city of Jalalabad.

Qureshi Badloon, Head of the Information and Culture Department in Nangarhar, stated that the incident occurred Wednesday night, in the Ghowchak area of district 7, Jalalabad.

According to Badloon, the victims included women and children, while the injured individual was transported to a medical facility for treatment.

No further details have yet been released regarding the cause of the roof collapse.

A U.S. government oversight agency that for nearly two decades tracked waste, fraud and abuse in American spending on Afghanistan is scheduled to shut down on January 31, 2026.

The office, known as the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), was created by the U.S. Congress in 2008 to independently review how billions of dollars in military, development and humanitarian aid were used in Afghanistan. It conducted audits, inspections and investigations to detect misuse of funds and recommend changes to improve accountability.

Over its lifetime, SIGAR documented thousands of instances of waste, fraud and abuse in U.S.-led reconstruction programs and reported on projects that failed to meet goals or were never completed. In its final reports, the office estimated that tens of billions of dollars intended for Afghanistan reconstruction were lost or mismanaged, and it highlighted systemic problems in planning, oversight and execution of U.S. efforts.

The closure of SIGAR comes as part of U.S. defense policy changes that set a deadline for the agency’s work to end this month.