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The Gold Star families of the 13 American servicemembers killed during the bombing of Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport amid President Joe Biden’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 addressed the Republican National Convention (RNC) on Wednesday night, condemning Biden for forgetting their children.

China signed a deal to import $25 million in Afghan cotton, providing income to the Taliban and muddying China’s cotton supply lines.

Members of the Taliban terrorist organization concluded their participation on Monday in a U.N.-led international meeting on the future of Afghanistan, thanking organizers for including them and specifically expressing praise for the government of U.S. President Joe Biden or the engagement.

Canada’s Globe and Mail dropped another bombshell on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s faltering government on Thursday, revealing that Trudeau’s former Defense Minister Harjit Sajjan prioritized rescuing Afghan Sikhs ahead of Canadians after the Taliban stormed Kabul in August 2021.

The U.N. warned that the Taliban could cause overdose deaths from synthetic alternatives by shutting down opium production in Afghanistan.

The United Nations invited the jihadist Taliban terrorist organization to a two-day conference on Afghanistan in Doha, Qatar, next weekend, its third such meeting since the Taliban seized power in 2021.

Al-Qaeda leader Sayf al-Adl reportedly urged Muslims to “go to Afghanistan” to train with the Taliban in a recent message.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told Russian media on Tuesday that his government is planning to remove the Afghan Taliban from its list of designated foreign terrorist organizations to facilitate diplomacy with Afghanistan.

The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction found that Joe Biden has overseen $10.9 million in payments to the Taliban.

The Taliban junta is putting some effort into reviving tourism in Afghanistan, and “adventure tourism” companies say it is working.

Bill Gates announced his foundation will open an office in Riyadh as Saudi Arabia pledged $500 million to a polio vaccination initiative.

Pakistan’s top diplomat on Afghanistan issues claimed that his country has seen a 500-percent increase in suicide terrorist attacks since 2021.

Members of the Taliban jihadist terror organization in control of Afghanistan joined a series of meetings that included representatives of United Nations agencies to discuss the alleged threat of climate change, the group organizing the talks confirmed this week.

The top Kremlin spokesman told reporters on Tuesday that Russia is considering removing the Afghan Taliban from its official terrorist organization list, paving the way to recognize the jihadists as the official government of Afghanistan and establish diplomatic ties.

An unknown terrorist rammed a vehicle carrying explosives into a convoy of Chinese engineers working on a project in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, on Tuesday, the latest in a growing number of attacks targeting China’s Belt and Road Initiative in the region.

The top spokesman for the Taliban regime of Afghanistan, Zabihullah Mujahid, repeated the terrorist organization’s claims on Monday that the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISIS-K), the jihadists’ Afghan affiliate, had been “significantly weakened” in the country under Taliban rule.

The Chinese state propaganda Global Times newspaper blamed President Joe Biden’s disastrous extension of the 20-year Afghan war and subsequent Taliban conquest of Kabul for creating the conditions to allow a harrowing terrorist attack in Moscow on Friday, which the Islamic State claimed responsibility for.

Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) said Tuesday on CNN’s “The Situation Room” that it was “absolutely unrealistic” to say the Biden administration could have avoided the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

The government of Pakistan confirmed the execution of “intelligence-based anti-terrorist operations” within Afghanistan on Monday, outraging the Taliban which claimed to have responded by bombing Pakistani military bases “with heavy weapons.”

Iran’s top diplomat on Afghanistan issues reportedly claimed in an interview on Wednesday that his country is studying the best way to construct a border wall to protect itself from terror threats emanating from its eastern neighbor.

China’s top diplomat on Afghanistan, Yue Xiaoyong, repeated the Communist Party’s demands this week for America to end sanctions and allow Taliban terrorists to access frozen Afghan government funds.

Recent reports from the U.N. and America’s top watchdog agency on Afghanistan indicate that al-Qaeda is thriving in Afghanistan nearly three years after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban.

The “Queer.af” instance of the open-source social media platform Mastodon disappeared on Monday, along with many other domains and websites, because the Taliban regime abruptly decided to take control of Afghanistan’s domain servers.

A U.S. Marine Corp veteran has been reunited with a bomb-sniffing dog he served with in Afghanistan after she was kidnapped by the Taliban.

Pakistan’s elections were marked by a government shutdown of mobile Internet services and bloody terrorist attacks.

The Taliban on Thursday rejected a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) report that said al-Qaeda has established “up to eight” new training camps, plus a number of safe houses, in Afghanistan since President Joe Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from the country in 2021.

A Russian private jet carrying six people is believed to have crashed in a remote area of rural Afghanistan.

The Taliban terrorist organization that rules Afghanistan urged its neighbors in Iran and Pakistan to show “restraint” after the two nations bombed each other, allegedly to diminish the threat of ethnic Baloch separatist groups to their respective governments.

Shawn VanDiver, president of an advocacy group called AfghanEvac, told Reuters on Tuesday that at least 130 Afghan refugees who were being processed for resettlement to the United States have been caught up in Pakistan’s massive deportation program and sent back to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) warned in its annual report that religious freedom deteriorated around the world in 2023, a net loss driven by increasingly vicious crackdowns from theocracies like Iran and authoritarian regimes like China and Cuba.

The United Nations revealed that, according to its estimates, Myanmar is now the world’s top producer of opium, dethroning Afghanistan.

The government of China became the first in the world to accept a formal ambassador from the Taliban terrorist organization currently in control of Afghanistan. In remarks on Tuesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said he expects the world will begin accepting the Taliban as a legitimate government “naturally.”

Taliban authorities in Afghanistan arrested four local employees of Germany’s main government-owned aid agency.

The Taliban regime in Afghanistan sent a high-level trade delegation to Pakistan on Tuesday for trilateral talks that included Uzbekistan.

The United Nations revealed in a study published on Sunday that, under Taliban rule, Afghanistan’s opium supply dropped by 95 percent in one year and the nation’s opiate economy has experienced “near-total contraction.”

John Sopko, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), issued his latest report on Monday.