MONITORING (SW) – Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi urged the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Wednesday to resume financing support to cash-strapped Afghanistan for reconstruction.
MONITORING (SW) – United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has said that Afghanistan is becoming the world’s largest humanitarian crisis and timely measures are needed to avert the catastrophe.
GARDEZ (SW) – Targeted assassinations under suspicious circumstances of the former government officials are on the rise in southeastern provinces.
KABUL (SW) – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Emirate has welcomed the decision of Russian President Vladimir Putin to remove the Taliban from the list of terrorist groups in that country.
KABUL (SW) – Bahadur Aminian, Iran’s ambassador to Kabul, has said that Afghanistan’s economic problems are leading to the youth joining the ranks of extremist groups such as Daesh.
KABUL (SW) – Chief of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan has urged all entities in Afghanistan to prevent an economic collapse of the country.
KABUL (SW) – A number of political and jihadi leaders who went abroad with the rise to power of the Taliban have announced the formation of the ‘Supreme Council of National Resistance of the Islamic Republic’.
MONITORING (SW) – The Red Cross on Friday urged the international community to engage with Afghanistan’s new Taliban rulers, saying that aid groups on their own would be unable to stave off a humanitarian crisis.
MONITORING (SW) – The US is “nearing” a formalised agreement with Pakistan which would allow Washington to use Pakistani airspace to conduct military and intelligence operations against Afghanistan, said a report by CNN Saturday.
MONITORING (SW) – NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said what has happened in Afghanistan is a tragedy for Afghan people.
MONITORING (SW) – The Taliban have again urged the international community to recognize their Islamic Emirate as official government in Afghanistan.
MONITORING (SW) – Zalmay Khalilzad has said that the American forces are out, and the war is over for the United States, but this is not the final chapter as the Afghan people face great challenges ahead, including on the economy and security
