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The Taliban (IEA) is seeking to import oil from Russia in what is likely an effort to drive down rising fuel prices in Afghanistan. On monday, Acting Minister of Industry and Trade Nouruddin Azizi told Russian media that the IEA is seeking one million barrels of oil from Russia, adding that they would like to consider the option of bartering...

Chinese officials met with Taliban (IEA) leadership in Kabul this week to discuss the expansion of economic and diplomatic cooperation. https://twitter.com/stuartyueh/status/1557068103317585925?s=20&t=AWyI0AFlXGwGd0W1R9zgqw There was an array of meetings held on Wednesday between Chinese and Taliban officials. The most prominent was that of China’s Special Envoy for Afghan Affairs, Yue Xiaoyong, meeting with Amir Khan Muttaqi, the acting Taliban Minister of Foreign Affairs....

On July 31, 2022, al-Qaeda leader and architect behind many of the terror group’s attacks abroad, Ayman Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri, was killed during a CIA drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan. The United States Department of Defense reported that two Hellfire missiles were used to carry out the strike, which resulted in no other casualties. Immediately after the strike, photos...

Update (1302 EST): In a surprising turn of events, Hasht-e-Subh, a popular news agency in Afghanistan claimed that Aziz Ahmad Rayan, the spokesman for the Ministry of Education of the Taliban, counterclaimed this publication's story on the reopening of Afghan girls schools. This story was based on an official post from the Afghan Ministry of Education Twitter page which...

Grief and hardship has engulfed the South-Central Asian nation of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, as it is now officially known following the collapse of the former government of Afghanistan in 2021. Over 1,000 people have likely now been killed and more than 1,500 injured after a 6.1 magnitude earthquake in southeastern areas of the country on Wednesday, officials...