The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) has officially approved the formation of a women’s football team comprised of Afghan refugees in exile, and has ratified a strategy for its practical implementation.
Hussein Zolfaghari, the Iranian President's representative and Secretary-General of the Anti-Drug Headquarters, has voiced concern over the increasing flow of precursor chemicals for drug production from the West into Afghanistan.
The Afghanistan Freedom Front (AFF) has criticised the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) for its latest proposal on the country’s political future, calling it “short-sighted” and a move that risks further marginalising key Afghan stakeholders.
The Taliban’s Ministry of Education has announced that it has established 269 schools and nearly 23000 Islamic education centres (madrasas) across Afghanistan over the past three years.
Sirajuddin Haqqani, the Taliban’s Minister of Interior, has met with the special envoys of Pakistan and China to discuss the expansion of trilateral political and economic cooperation.
Afghanistan has been named one of the ten most dangerous countries in the world for Christians, according to the World Watch List 2025, a new report published by the American think tank Gatestone Institute.
Shawn VanDiver, head of Afghan Evac, an organisation advocating for the relocation of Afghan nationals to the United States, has announced that the US federal government has granted a 60-day extension to Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Afghans.
Several travellers at the Torkham border crossing told Afghanistan International on Friday, 9 May, that the border has been closed to passenger movement. However, they reported that freight trucks are still being allowed to pass.
Iran International, the 24-hour Persian-language news network, has been honoured with the prestigious AAM Award, which is granted annually to leading media outlets and advocates of free expression and civil society.
Radio Hurriyat, a Taliban-affiliated media outlet, has reported that the group’s Foreign Minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, has assured the family of former Afghan parliamentarian Zahir Qadir that efforts are under way to address his detention in Kenya.
Local sources said that Mohammad Akbar Niazi, head of the People’s Council for Khuram Wa Sarbagh district in Samangan province, was abducted from his home by unidentified armed men and later found dead with gunshot wounds.
Local Taliban officials in Nangarhar have announced that the Torkham border crossing has reopened to passenger traffic following a one-day closure caused by heavy rainfall.
The Afghanistan Freedom Front (AFF) has claimed responsibility for an attack that reportedly killed two Taliban fighters and injured another near Bandar-e Khan Abad in the northern province of Kunduz.