Tag: Afghanistan

Chinese foreign minister in Qatar for talks with the Taliban (Al Monitor)

China’s top diplomat will be in Qatar this week to meet with Taliban officials. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will head to Doha today and...

Chinese State Councilor Wang Yi to meet Afghan Taliban in Qatar in first high-level meeting with Afghan interim govt (Global Times)

Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi will meet a delegation of the Afghan Taliban interim government in Qatar to exchange views on the...

‘Children going to die’: UN warns of ‘acute’ Afghan food crisis (Al Jazeera)

Millions of Afghans, including children, could die of starvation unless urgent action is taken to pull Afghanistan back from the brink of collapse, a...

Moscow expects US to fulfill promise of assistance to Afghanistan, says Russian envoy (TASS)

Moscow is counting on Washington to will fulfill its promise of socio-economic assistance to Afghanistan, Russian Presidential Envoy for Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov said, addressing...

Russia to support UN in organizing donor conference on Afghanistan — envoy (TASS)

Moscow is interested in convening a UN donor conference on Afghanistan as soon as possible, Special Russian Presidential Representative for Afghanistan, Director of the...

Moscow to push for unfreezing of Afghan foreign assets, says Russian envoy (TASS)

The freezing of Afghanistan’s assets in the US and EU is ridiculous, they should be unfrozen, which Moscow will be pushing for, Russian Presidential...

Russia preparing emergency humanitarian aid for Afghanistan — envoy (TASS)

Russia’s Defense and Emergencies Ministries are preparing humanitarian aid that they will render to Afghanistan as emergency assistance soon, Special Russian Presidential Representative for...

Russian-Led CSTO Stages More Counterterrorism Drills On Tajik-Afghan Border (RFE RL)

Members of the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) have completed another joint counterterrorism training exercise in Tajikistan near the border with Afghanistan. The exercise...

An Assessment of International Coalition Forces Intervention in Afghanistan (Brig (Dr) Ashok Pathak, VIF)

The Al Qaeda attack on the twin towers on 9 September 2001 turned America’s global war on terror into a crusade. The operation Enduring...

Pakistani foreign minister meets Taliban in Afghanistan (Al Jazeera)

Pakistan’s foreign minister has visited Afghanistan for the first time since the Taliban takeover in August, amid continuing tensions about transport links between the...

UN sets up trust fund for Afghanistan amid cash shortages (Al Jazeera)

The United Nations says it has set up a special trust fund to provide urgently-needed cash directly to Afghans through a system that taps...

Afghanistan, AUKUS and European Strategic Autonomy (Pol Morillas, CIDOB)

Security and defence are increasingly grabbing the spotlight in European public debates. In just a few weeks, the withdrawal of Western forces from Afghanistan...

‘Moscow format’ talks highlight China-Russia coordination on Afghan issue, conspicuous US absence (Liu Caiyu, Global Times)

The "Moscow format" talks on Wednesday highlighted the prominent role of China-Russia coordination on the Afghan crisis when the US and some Western countries...

Ukraine defense minister: Don’t compare us to Afghanistan (Joe Gould, Defense News)

Ukraine’s defense minister fired back Tuesday at Russian predictions that the U.S., in light of its rushed exit from Afghanistan, will eventually abandon Ukraine. “I’m...

Kremlin says direct contacts with Taliban needed to comprehend developments in Afghanistan (TASS)

According to Dmitry Peskov, the situation in Afghanistan is of paramount importance for Russia, its neighbors and allies in various associations Kremlin says direct contacts...

Moscow consultations help facilitate consensus on Afghanistan, Lavrov says (TASS)

Earlier, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that participants in the Moscow consultations would discuss possible political and military developments in Afghanistan and prospects for...