Tag: Taliban

The Taliban has announced its interest in creating a trade route with China in the historic Wakhan Corridor and connecting Afghanistan to the One Belt One Road Initiative (BRI). Nooruddin Azizi, the Taliban Minister of Industry and Commerce, said that the establishment of a trade route in the Wakhan Corridor,...

At least three people are dead after a Taliban Air Force UH-60A Black Hawk helicopter crashed during a training exercise in Kabul today. According to the Taliban Ministry of National Defense, the helicopter suffered a “technical problem” and crash landed inside the campus of the National Defense University, killing...

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...

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...

Taliban supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada has reportedly signed a decree that effectively dissolves Afghanistan’s Human Rights Commission, High Council for National Reconciliation, National Security Council, Constitutional Oversight Commission, and Parliament, according to documents posted online. So far, there has not been any official statements from the Taliban to confirm...