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The Taliban shut down Afghanistan’s main border crossing with Pakistan on Sunday, vaguely accusing Pakistan of failing to keep certain promises made to the Afghan junta.

A power struggle looks to be brewing in the junta ruling Afghanistan, as Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani – an FBI Most Wanted terrorist, New York Times published commentator, and leader of the Haqqani Network – lodged a bit of veiled public criticism against Taliban Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada over the weekend.

Four Afghans, supposedly minors, who arrived in Britain by boat have been arrested after a girl was raped at the school they were placed in.

The Taliban’s Ministry of Foreign affairs announced on Wednesday that the “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan” will send 10 million Afghanis in aid (about $111,000) to Turkey, and half that amount to Syria, “on the basis of shared humanity and Islamic brotherhood” after Monday’s extremely destructive earthquakes.

Tajmir Jawad, deputy minister of intelligence for the Taliban junta in Afghanistan, boasted in a national television interview on Saturday that he organized a bloody 2018 suicide bombing in Kabul that killed more than a hundred people, including women and children.

During an interview aired on Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Last Word,” outgoing White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain stated that the evacuation from Afghanistan “was a tremendous humanitarian achievement for the many lives that were saved” despite the “horrible,

On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Katy Tur Reports,” Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) stated that while “it’s a problem that former Afghan fighters are fighting for Russia” in Ukraine, “President Biden finally had the courage to understand” we couldn’t work with

An Afghan migrant that has now been convicted of multiple murders is said to have asked out a number of “14-year-old girls” while posing as a child in Britain.

Taliban terrorists detained five men, three Afghans and two Chinese citizens, suspected of attempting to smuggle lithium across the Chinese border, the Afghan news outlet Khaama Press reported on Monday.

Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang called his Taliban counterpart this weekend demanding the Sunni jihadist terrorist organization “take strong measures” to protect Communist Party investments in Afghanistan.

On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Evening Edit,” Rep. Pat Fallon (R-TX) stated that the Biden administration failed to evacuate people who actually helped the United States in Afghanistan while they took a bunch of people that didn’t

The BBC verified on Monday the sudden emergence of blue checkmarks, formerly a verification mark now available to anyone on the platform for $8 a month, on the accounts of at least two senior Taliban terrorists, but by Tuesday, the checkmarks had disappeared.

The nearly 50,000 Afghans, whom President Joe Biden’s administration housed on five United States military bases for months through 2021 and early 2022, cost taxpayers almost $189 million in damages to the facilities, a federal report reveals. 

The Taliban cannot keep the people of Afghanistan fed and clothed without massive international humanitarian aid, which they might not be getting for much longer if they keep oppressing women, but somehow the junta found time and resources to design and build a prototype “supercar” called the Mada 9.

The Islamic State on Wednesday took credit for a suicide bomb attack near the Afghan Foreign Ministry in Kabul that killed at least five people and wounded 40 more.

A 25-year-old Afghan has been arrested after being accused of raping a 14-year-old boy in a village in northern France on Christmas Eve. 

An Islamic hate preacher reportedly called for Muslims to target British troops in response to the claimed war kill count of Prince Harry.

The Taliban have branded Prince Harry an attention-seeking “loser” after he claimed to have killed 25 of their men while on duty in Afghanistan. 

The Taliban’s “acting” Minister of Mines and Petroleum, Shahabuddin Delawar, on Thursday signed a deal with China’s Xinjiang Central Asia Petroleum and Gas Co. to exploit the Amu Darya oil field in northern Afghanistan.

Taliban “Interior Minister” Sirajuddin Haqqani, a seasoned terrorist with a $10 million FBI bounty on his head, told United Nations officials on Monday that the jihadis would soon offer a “reasonable and permanent solution” regarding girls’ and women’s education.

New York police officials said on Monday that 19-year-old Trevor Bickford, charged with two counts of attempted murder and two counts of attempted assault for allegedly attacking police with a machete on New Year’s Eve, kept a diary in which he expressed a desire to join the Taliban and die as a “martyr” in the cause of Islamic extremism.

Tony Blair was briefed by a top civil servant that Osama Bin Laden should be ‘whacked’ in 2000, declassified memos have revealed. 

The United Nations announced on Wednesday that it has suspended certain “time-critical” activities in Afghanistan to protest the Taliban edict barring women from working for non-governmental organizations (NGOs.) Such organizations are heavily involved in delivering food and medicine to the large number of displaced, impoverished, and oppressed people in Afghanistan.

The U.N. Security Council issued a statement on Tuesday condemning the Taliban for excluding women from universities and banning them from working for humanitarian groups.

A former Soviet soldier who chose to stay in Afghanistan when the Red Army withdrew following a disastrous decade-long occupation that ended in 1989 has died.

European Union (EU) foreign policy head Josep Borrell on Sunday condemned the Taliban junta for barring women from working for both local and foreign non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Save the Children and four other international aid agencies suspended operations in Afghanistan on Sunday after the ban was announced.

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) – Confessed French serial killer Charles Sobhraj was freed from prison in Nepal on Friday after serving most of his sentence for killing American and Canadian backpackers and was taken to the airport for a flight back to Paris, his attorney said.

A group of about fifty women gathered in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Thursday to protest the Taliban banning women from universities. Taliban thugs used force to disperse the protest, beating and arresting some of the women while others fled.

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) successfully blocked the Republican establishment, joined by Democrats, in their efforts to slip a provision in a year-end spending package that would give green cards to tens of thousands of Afghans brought to the United States by President Joe Biden despite allegations of widespread vetting failures. 

A bombshell report citing customs reports and other documents published by Business Insider on Tuesday accused the collapsed government of Afghanistan of allowing nearly $1 billion in cash, gold, jewelry, and other valuables to be smuggled out of the country shortly before the Taliban takeover.

An Afghan refugee, brought to the United States as part of President Joe Biden’s massive resettlement operation, has now been deported after having been convicted of sexually abusing a three-year-old girl in Virginia.

A year-end federal government spending bill, totalling $1.7 trillion, funds more migration from Afghanistan even as vetting issues have plagued President Joe Biden’s administration and worried investigators. 

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America Reports,” Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) stated that there are real concerns about improper vetting of people brought out of Afghanistan, but we shouldn’t let those who helped the United States “be hung

Speaking with veterans at a town hall, Biden told a story of when he was in Iraq as Vice President and he was asked to pin a Silver Star on a service member for rescuing a comrade that had fallen 150 feet.

More Senate Republicans are getting behind a plan that would give green cards to tens of thousands of Afghans brought to the United States by President Joe Biden’s administration amid allegations of widespread vetting failures.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” CNN Chief National Security Correspondent Jim Sciutto discussed his reporting on the slow pace of evacuating Afghan allies from the country and noted that, at the rate the State Department is going, it