Afghanistan

Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid, Acting Minister of Defense of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), said this week that once firm diplomatic ties have been established with India, the new Afghan government will look at securing defense relations with New Delhi.  

&Before starting defense relations, the first condition is to have...

The United States on Thursday added 71 Russian and Belarusian entities to its trade blacklist including several aircraft factories and shipbuilding and research institutes in its latest effort to deprive the Russian military of U.S. technology and other items.

The export restrictions are among a raft of new sanctions the Washington imposed on...

Turkey&s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Pakistan&s Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif met this week in Ankara for discussions and pledged to strengthen bilateral ties and work together to help promote peace and stability in Afghanistan.  

The two leaders meanwhile raised concerns about the growing number of illegal Afghan...

Twenty-five civil society organizations including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have sent an open letter to the United Nations Human Rights Council calling for urgent debate on the women&s rights situation in Afghanistan.  

In a letter sent last week, the organizations called for the debate to be held at the 50th...