Clash Breaks Out between Iran Border Guards, Taliban forces – Al-Manar TV Lebanon

The governor of Hirmand County in the north of Sistan and Baluchestan Province of Iran announced a conflict between the Iranian border guards and the Taliban forces on the border of the county.

Deadly Blast Hits Mosque in Afghanistan - Tasnim News Agency

A powerful explosion ripped through a Shiite mosque in Mazar-i-Sharif, northern Afghanistan, causing dozens of casualties, according to officials.

Firing from Afghanistan kills 5 Pakistan troops - France24

At least five Pakistan soldiers were killed by firing from neighbouring Afghanistan, Islamabad said Sunday, in an attack claimed by the Pakistani Taliban.

Afghans forced to sell organs amid poverty, starvation

Families in Afghanistan are being forced to sell their children and their kidneys as more than half the population is having serious difficulties meeting basic food needs.

Taliban hail Oslo meet as success ‘in itself’ – EURACTIV.com

On their first visit to Europe since returning to power, the Taliban held landmark talks with Western diplomats in Oslo on Monday (24 January) over the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, a meeting the Islamist regime’s delegation called an “achievement in itself”.

UN Security Council allows humanitarian exception in Afghanistan sanctions regime - China.org.cn

The UN Security Council on Wednesday adopted a resolution to exempt humanitarian assistance in Afghanistan from an asset freeze against designated leaders of the Taliban and associated entities.

Taliban-led Afghan gov't thanks China over donation - China.org.cn

Chinese and Afghan officials inaugurated the construction of a mosque and two wells in the Ministry of Justice of Afghanistan on Sunday.

US, Allies Call on Taliban to Ensure Amnesty for Ex-Afghan Security Forces Members - Sputnik International

(Sputnik) - More than 20 countries, including the US, as well as the European Union, have expressed concern in a joint statement over allegations of crackdowns on former members of Afghan security forces.

Situation ‘Calm’ at Iran-Afghanistan Border after Clashes with Taliban - Tasnim News Agency

(Tasnim) – Clashes ensued between Iranian soldiers and Taliban members at the Iran-Afghanistan border, which appear to have resulted in no injuries and were afterwards described as a “misunderstanding”.

UN ‘must reject’ Taliban’s application

 

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Dozens of former Afghan forces killed or disappeared by Taliban, rights group says - BBC News

More than 100 former Afghan security forces have been killed by the Taliban or have disappeared since the militants seized control, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch.

Afghan acting FM calls on US to release Afghan assets - China.org.cn

Afghanistan's Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi on Wednesday called for the release of Afghanistan's central bank assets frozen by the United States government.

The Taliban are ‘running Afghanistan into the ground’

 

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Afghan administration downplays IS threat, arrests 600 militants - China.org.cn

The caretaker government of Afghanistan on Wednesday downplayed the security threat posed by the hardliner Islamic State (IS), or Daesh outfit, saying security forces had arrested 600 militants affiliated with the armed group over the past three months.

Afghanistan's ghost soldiers undermined fight against Taliban - ex-official - BBC News

Afghanistan's ex-finance minister has blamed the government's fall on corrupt officials who invented "ghost soldiers" and took payments from the Taliban.

6 killed in separate explosions in Afghanistan - China.org.cn

At least two Taliban security force members and four civilians were killed and nine people wounded in two separate explosions in Afghanistan on Wednesday, multiple sources confirmed.

Why did Russia hold military drills on the Afghanistan border? | DW News

 

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Taliban welcomes Russia’s plans to remove them from list of terrorists - spokesman - TASS

The Taliban movement (outlawed in Russia) welcomes remarks by Russian President Vladimir Putin about possibility to exclude the group from the list of terrorist organizations, Abdul Qahar Balkhi, spokesperson of the Afghan Foreign Ministry in the interim government of the country, said on Sunday.

Afghanistan’s New Authorities Aim at Improving Living Standards: Russia - Tasnim News Agency

(Tasnim) – Afghanistan’s new authorities are resorting to measures aimed at improving living standards in the country, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stated.

Removal of Taliban from list of terrorist organizations possible — Putin - TASS

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that the removal of the Taliban movement (outlawed in Russia) from the list of terrorist organizations is possible, but at the same time he stressed that this must happen at the level of the United Nations.