Zalmay Khalilzad, former U.S. envoy for Afghan peace, has arrived in Kabul on a new visit and met with Amir Khan Muttaqi, the Taliban’s foreign minister.
The National Resistance Front of Afghanistan has claimed responsibility for the recent explosion in Darah district of Panjshir province, asserting that 17 Taliban members—including the commander of a special forces base—were killed and five others wounded.
Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar Akhund, Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs of the Taliban, held a high-level meeting yesterday with Shaher Al-Taqi, CEO of Saudi Arabia’s Delta International, and Zalmay Khalilzad, former U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan.
According to a report by Russia’s Nezavisimaya Gazeta, citing unnamed sources, the U.S. military is allegedly preparing to retake Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. The operation could involve tens of thousands of troops and may extend to surrounding provinces, including Kabul.
The Taliban responded to an airstrike by Pakistani fighter jets in Paktika province by attacking Pakistani border areas and border guard checkpoints.
On January 20, Taliban militants and Pakistani border guards exchanged artillery fire and shelled each other’s areas on the borders of Kunar-Bajaur border areas.
According to local media reports, in a joint operation by forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Afghanistan’s Taliban intelligence agency, three individuals affiliated to the Israeli regime’s Intelligence Community Mossad were arrested in border areas of Afghanistan.
Following the suspension of the prisoner exchange program by Pakistan at the Spin Boldak-Chaman border crossing, Taliban militants clashed with Pakistani border guards for the fourteenth time.
Three Taliban militants including director of intelligence office in Shakar Dara town Qari Bismillah were killed following an ambush by Ahmad Massoud’s forces.
Following an armed conflict between Taliban militants and Pakistani border guards at the Torkham border crossing in Nangarhar province, all activities at this border crossing have been suspended.
As a result of an unsuccessful suicide motorcycle attack, several Pakistani soldiers were injured in North Waziristan province.
The Jabhat Ansar al-Mahdi Khorasan group, affiliated to the leader of the Taliban in Afghanistan, was formed and started attacking Pakistan’s government forces in Bannu city located on the Kurram River in southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
