The Trump administration has bypassed congressional review to approve military sales totaling more than $8.6 billion to Israel, Qatar, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, according to media reports on Saturday. The US State Department announced the approvals on Friday, at a time when the conflict involving the United States and Israel against Iran has More
The German Embassy in Pakistan has announced the launch of a new online system for Afghan applicants seeking work and study visas, aiming to make the process faster and more efficient. In a statement published on its Facebook page, the German Embassy in Islamabad said that starting from June 1 of this year, applicants will More
Zalmay Khalilzad, the former US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation, has called on Taliban to respond “realistically and substantively” to a UNICEF report on the consequences of banning girls’ education through 2030. In a post on his X page, Khalilzad urged Taliban leadership to provide a genuine and substantive response to the report, which indicates More
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has banned its citizens from traveling to Iran, Lebanon, and Iraq. According to Reuters, the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Thursday that its citizens must leave these countries. The ministry also urged Emiratis currently in those countries to depart immediately and return home. Meanwhile, the UAE’s official news More
Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian has said that the US naval blockade of Iranian ports amounts to an “extension of military operations” by Washington and is “intolerable”. Pezeshkian wrote on his X account: “The world has witnessed Iran’s tolerance and peace-seeking nature. What is being carried out under the name of a maritime blockade is an More
Fewer than two percent of migrants from certain countries, including Afghanistan, were deported from the United Kingdom last year, according to reports. The Telegraph reported that the migrants in question were from 14 countries, including Afghanistan. More than 40,000 asylum applications were filed with the UK Home Office during the period, but only 285 individuals More
Richard Lindsay, the United Kingdom’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, has described his visit to Kabul as “productive and valuable,” saying he urged Afghan officials to support a return to dialogue and diplomacy between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Lindsay arrived in Kabul earlier this week and held talks with officials of Taliban. Speaking to journalists in Kabul More
According to reports, a senior Pentagon official told a U.S. congressional hearing that the United States has so far spent $25 billion in the war with Iran. Reuters reported that during a congressional hearing held to defend Donald Trump’s request for an increase in the military budget, Adam Smith, a Democratic member of Congress’s defense More
The government of Austria has announced that it will sign an agreement with Uzbekistan next month to facilitate deportation procedures, including the return of Afghan nationals to Afghanistan via the Central Asian country. The Austrian Interior Ministry said on Wednesday that the agreement is intended to streamline deportation processes. According to The European Conservative, an More
A federal jury in Virginia has found Mohammad Sharifullah, an Afghan citizen, guilty in connection with the 2021 attack on Kabul airport. However, a final sentence has not yet been issued. According to Reuters, a federal jury on Wednesday convicted Sharifullah of conspiring to provide material support to a “terrorist organization” in connection with the More
