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Taliban Supreme Leader Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada made a surprise appearance at an ongoing conference of Islamic clerics in Kabul, Afghanistan, declaring Islam “the religion of peace” while declaring that the Taliban “hopes for martyrdom” and celebrates the success of “our jihad.”

The Global Times, a Chinese government newspaper, demanded in an editorial on Thursday that the United States fund the Taliban jihadist organization by unfreezing Afghan government funds after a 5.9-magnitude earthquake killed over 1,000 people in the country this week.

John Sopko, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan (SIGAR), wrote a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, USAID Administrator Samantha Power, and the heads of several congressional committees on Wednesday complaining that the Biden administration abruptly stopped cooperating with his investigations after he issued a report critical of President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan.

The Taliban jihadist organization and the U.S. Department of Defense confirmed on Friday the release of Afghan national Assadullah Haroon Gul, also known as “Asadullah Haroon al-Afghani,” from the military facility at Guantánamo Bay after 15 years.

The Taliban terrorist organization running Afghanistan requested on Wednesday that foreign governments and the broader international community help it respond to a 5.9-magnitude earthquake that the jihadists say killed well over 1,000 people.

President Joe Biden will allow Afghans who “who provided insignificant or certain limited material support to a designated terrorist organization” to “qualify for protection and other immigration benefits in the United States,” a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announcement states. 

The Taliban’s “General Directorate of Intelligence” on Tuesday arrested Afghan fashion model and YouTube celebrity Ajmal Haqiqi and three of his friends for “insulting Islamic sacred values.”

Top Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid condemned the U.S. State Department on Sunday for publishing a religious freedom report on Afghanistan revealing the repression of minorities of faith in the country.

An Indian governmental delegation met with leaders of the Taliban in Kabul on Thursday for the first time since the group seized control of Afghanistan in August 2021, Asian News International (ANI) reported, noting that the high-level meeting concerned bilateral relations and humanitarian aid.

Afghan refugees dumped into California are struggling to find housing and other help needed to get settled in a new country.

The Taliban regime on Thursday ordered all female television presenters to cover their faces while on the air. The order was the latest example of the Islamist regime failing to live up to the absurdly optimistic “reform” expectations of the United Nations.

The Taliban terrorist organization announced a ban on exporting wheat out of Afghanistan on Thursday in response to concerns that the country soon face critical food shortages.

The Taliban recently dissolved Afghanistan’s Human Rights Commission along with four other departments established by the country’s former, U.S.-backed government, Khaama Press News Agency reported on Tuesday citing an original report by Reuters.

The latest report from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), the federal government’s designated watchdog on America’s role in the country, blamed President Joe Biden’s extension of the Afghan war — then abrupt withdrawal from the country — for crushing the morale of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF), paving the way for the Taliban’s swift takeover.

The Taliban’s defense ministry on Sunday claimed the “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan” has amassed a standing army of over 130,000 troops with hopes to bring that number up to 150,000.

The Taliban shutdown of girls’ education shows the hardline Islamists’ are not listening to the Afghan people, an EU official said Thursday.

A group of women identifying themselves as members of an anti-jihadist collective known as the “Justice and Freedom Movement” organized a protest on Monday in Kabul, Afghanistan, against a Taliban decree passed over the weekend mandating women cover their faces in public.

The Taliban terrorist group’s “Ministry of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice” issued an edict this weekend declaring that women and girls should leave their homes as little as possible and that women should wear “hijab,” which it defined as including face coverings, at all times.

Afghan news outlets Khaama Press and Ariana News reported on Thursday that an estimated 97 percent of citizens in the country are currently suffering the effects of food shortages, citing the United Nations.

The Taliban’s Ministry of Urban Development signed a deal last week with China’s Beijing-Nangarhar Construction and Manufacturing Company to build a $216 million industrial complex on the outskirts of Kabul.

Jan Agha Achakzai, the director of an institute overseeing driving schools in Herat, Afghanistan, told Agence France-Presse (AFP) in a report published on Tuesday the Taliban recently ordered his subordinates to stop issuing driving licenses to women.

Taliban “Supreme Leader” Hibatullah Akhundzada made a public appearance this weekend to celebrate the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Eid al-Fitr, and offered brief comments crediting the jihadist terrorist group with restoring “security” to Afghanistan.”

Nigel Farage says it is “crazy” that Donald Trump was banned from Twitter but the radical Islamic extremist Taliban remained on the platform even as it stormed Kabul.

Taliban defense minister Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob said on Sunday his regime would tolerate no further “invasions” like the airstrikes allegedly conducted by Pakistan two weeks ago, and might launch retaliatory attacks “next time” it happens.

The Sunni jihadist Taliban terrorist organization claimed on Tuesday that it shuttered all secondary girls’ schools across Afghanistan in March because their existence allegedly violated sharia, or Islamic law, Afghanistan’s Khaama Press news agency reported on Wednesday.

The ruling Taliban of Afghanistan has banned the Chinese-owned social media app TikTok for “misleading” the youth of the country. One Taliban official commented that TikTok is filled with “filthy content was not consistent with Islamic Laws.”

The Taliban regime responded angrily to Pakistani airstrikes against targets in Afghanistan on Friday, denouncing the attacks as violations of Afghanistan’s territorial integrity and warning of “dire consequences” if such operations continue.

Stu Barnes-Israel, a former U.S. Army combat veteran who served in Afghanistan and a Republican candidate running to represent Indiana’s Ninth Congressional District, told Breitbart News Saturday that President Joe Biden’s “weakness” has been an “embarrassment” and has “absolutely emboldened our adversaries around the world.”

Iran’s Foreign Ministry on Tuesday summoned Afghanistan’s charge d’affaires in Tehran to protest against violent attacks by Afghans on the Iranian Embassy in Kabul and the Iranian Consulate General in Herat on Monday, the official website of the Iranian Foreign Ministry reported.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Thursday blamed the United States for Afghanistan’s vast narcotics industry and demanded the U.S. government should “apologize and compensate for its dishonorable role in the Afghan drug problem.”

Ian McCary, the U.S. Charge d’Affaires for Afghanistan, on Monday praised the Taliban regime for supposedly banning the cultivation of opium poppies. 

China has reportedly become the second nation after Russia to accept the credentials of a Taliban “diplomat” since the Taliban terrorist group took over Afghanistan in August, Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi said on Monday.

The UK Home Office has outright refused to deport a former torturer for the Taliban over fears his ex-comrades would torture him should he return home.

The government of China concluded a meeting on Thursday of regional governments to discuss how to handle the rise of the Taliban jihadist organization in Afghanistan, concluding the world should recognize the “Afghan interim government” and “inject liquidity” into the country.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced Thursday that Moscow has accredited its first diplomatic representative from the Taliban, even though Russia supposedly regards the regime that violently seized control of Afghanistan last summer as a terrorist organization.

Chinese dictator Xi Jinping praised the “sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity” of Afghanistan in a message to a foreign ministers’ meeting featuring a Taliban representative on Thursday, encouraging neighboring countries to “do their best” to support the “Afghan people.”