ISTANBUL (AA) – Domestic, Asian, and European companies Thursday signed seven major mining contracts worth around $6.5 billion with the interim Taliban administration in Afghanistan. The contracts were signed in Kabul between the war-torn nation’s Ministry of Mines and Petroleum and private companies from Afghanistan, Türkiye, Iran and China, ...
ANKARA (AA) — Afghanistan’s interim Taliban government has rejected a UN Security Council report claiming that several terrorist groups, including ISIS, are present in the country and have access to weapons left by US-led foreign forces. “The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan once again rejects these baseless accusations and . . . in ...
GENEVA (AA) – Afghans living in Switzerland who no longer have valid papers are entitled to a special Swiss passport, the Swiss State Secretariat for Migration has announced. The decision by the State Secretariat was preceded by a court ruling in July which stated that it was impossible for Afghans to obtain papers from their […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – The interim Afghan government on Tuesday denied a UN report that alleged the Kabul administration had killed and tortured people after its takeover on Aug. 15, 2021. The UN report detailed 800 cases of extrajudicial killing, arbitrary arrest, torture, and forced disappearance involving former Afghan government affiliates and se...