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South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol told the Qatar News Agency that Seoul is seeking to expand defense cooperation with Qatar.

The Taliban plans to formally join China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and will soon dispatch a “technical team” to Beijing.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi announced on Monday that Russian leader Vladimir Putin will attend the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation in Beijing on Tuesday.

The Taliban jihadist regime in Afghanistan sent its Industry and Commerce Minister Nooruddin Azizi to Beijing on Monday to attend this week’s “Belt and Road Forum,” a celebration of ten years of China’s global predatory lending scheme.

“He immediately asked me if I wanted to come back to Afghanistan with him again,” a close friend of ‘Lord Miles’ said.

The Taliban rulers of Afghanistan on Monday said they supported the brutal slaughter of Israeli women and children perpetrated by Hamas terrorists, but denied a rumor that its fighters want to join forces and attack Jerusalem.

Afghanistan was struck by its deadliest earthquake in years on Sunday, with over 2,400 casualties reported at last count from the northwestern city of Herat and its surrounding province.

The Taliban blasted Pakistan Wednesday for ordering roughly 1.73 million Afghans living in the country illegally to leave by November 1.

A spokesman for the Taliban told Reuters on Monday that his regime is thinking about repurposing an abandoned U.S. plan for increased electronic surveillance in the cities of Afghanistan, and has “consulted” with Chinese telecom giant Huawei about the equipment that would be needed.

The Taliban raided the office of a Swiss nonprofit group in Afghanistan and reportedly took into custody an American and 17 others.

China named a new ambassador to Afghanistan, the first country to make an ambassadorial-level appointment to the brutal Taliban regime.

Tom West, the U.S. special representative for Afghanistan, said on Tuesday that the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan have “significantly degraded” their rivals in the Islamic State, including the liquidation of several top ISIS leaders since the Taliban took over in 2021.

Pakistan accused the Afghan Taliban of building “unlawful structures” on the border and engaging in “indiscriminate firing” at Pakistanis.

During a portion of an interview with the Fox News Channel released on Friday’s edition of the “Fox News Rundown: Evening Edition” podcast, former CENTCOM Commander Gen. Frank McKenzie (Ret.) defended cutting a deal with the Taliban to provide security

During an interview with the Fox News Channel aired on Thursday’s broadcast of “Special Report,” former CENTCOM Commander Gen. Frank McKenzie (Ret.) defended cutting a deal with the Taliban to provide security outside the perimeter of the Kabul airport during

The Pakistani military said on Wednesday that its border forces repelled an attack from a “large group of terrorists” from Afghanistan. The invaders attacked two Pakistani outposts in the Kalash valley using the “latest weapons,” which is how Pakistani officials often refer to the American equipment abandoned in Afghanistan during President Joe Biden’s disastrous 2021 withdrawal.

On Wednesday’s “Hugh Hewitt Show,” 2024 Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump defended his plan to withdraw from Afghanistan and his administration’s deal with the Taliban by arguing that the Taliban faced consequences when they didn’t follow the deal.

Officials said they have broken up a suspected terror cell linked to the Islamic State group that consisted of nine young men and one woman.

Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar, the caretaker prime minister of Pakistan, told a state television audience on Friday that President Joe Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 unleashed a wave of terrorist attacks in the Pakistani border region – and some of those terrorists used American equipment abandoned by Biden.

The Taliban jihadist terror organization held a press conference on Thursday to sign contracts the terrorists claimed were worth more than $6.5 billion, giving Chinese, British, Iranian, and Turkish companies access to Afghanistan’s vast mineral wealth.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-MA) said that the Taliban has “been reasonably effective in counterterrorism” and “reasonably responsive to Western needs to have signals and human intelligence about counterterrorism threats.” But they have

China’s top diplomat in Afghanistan effusively praised the Taliban in an interview published Tuesday to mark the end of the U.S. military presence in the country, crediting the terrorist organization with engaging in “practical measures” that have brought the country “positive improvements.”

The Taliban’s Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice banned women from Band-e-Amir National Park this weekend – one of Afghanistan’s largest and most beautiful parks – on the grounds that some women had worn hijab inappropriately and that “sightseeing is not a must for women.”

Taliban Ministry of Vice and Virtue spokesman Molvi Mohammad Sadiq Akif explained on Thursday that his extremist regime forces women to cover their faces because the “value” of a woman “decreases” when men look at her.

Following Taliban mass celebrations marking the two-year anniversary of the U.S.’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) accused the Biden administration of having caved to “terrorists” and taken no accountability for the ensuing disaster. 

The Chinese Foreign Ministry celebrated the two-year anniversary of the Taliban conquering Afghanistan on Tuesday.

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul says he is “prepared to put a hold on funding” for Afghanistan due to Taliban theft.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said on Tuesday that Afghan journalism is “still resisting after two years of Taliban persecution,” but that resistance is sadly muted.

The Taliban “Ministry of the Interior” announced on Monday that it had held meetings with senior executives from the Chinese telecommunications company Huawei to discuss the potential of installing a high-end surveillance system in every province of Afghanistan – potentially granting the jihadist terror outfit unprecedented repressive capabilities.

The Taliban marked two years as the uncontested government of Afghanistan on Tuesday, the anniversary of its takeover of Kabul.

Two years after the fall of Kabul, the Biden administration has failed to shake the Taliban’s iron grip on Afghanistan.

Girls in Afghanistan are bypassing the fanatical Taliban’s cruel ban on education for young women by attending secret schools, some of them run by female teachers — an occupation the Taliban also banned after President Joe Biden’s disastrous withdrawal two years ago.

The Taliban terror leaders running Afghanistan celebrated their expanding international influence on Sunday, claiming to control 16 embassies around the world representing the “Islamic Emirate.”

House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) said on this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday” he will put a hold on funding to Afghanistan until he gets assurances it is not going to the Taliban.

The office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), a federal watchdog agency, revealed in a report published Tuesday that America “remains the largest donor” to Afghanistan nearly two years after the Taliban’s conquest of the country – and the Taliban is taking credit for much of that aid.

A suspected suicide bombing killed at least 46 people and injured over 150 at an Islamist political event near the Afghan border in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Pakistan, on Sunday, believed to have been attended by hundreds of people.