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The outgoing Biden administration’s Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, will testify before a Republican-led House committee on the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan in August 2021, ending a long controversy with that committee just weeks before his term expired.

A rare inside account of the Taliban authorities' impact on Afghan women hits screens next week with the smartphone-filmed documentary "Bread & Roses."

An Afghan delegation will attend the upcoming U.N. climate change summit in Azerbaijan, the foreign ministry spokesman told AFP on Saturday, marking a first since the Taliban government came to power.

The shocking news of the suicide of a 16-year-old girl in Iran who ended her life after being threatened with expulsion when she was recorded dancing without wearing a hijab – days after the story of the Iranian student who stayed in her underwear to protest, was arrested and brutally abused.

The Taliban have introduced a new rule restricting Afghan women from hearing each other's voices, an additional step toward erasing women's presence in public life, as reported by the New York Post. Taliban Minister for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, Khalid Hanafi, reportedly decreed that women must not be able to hear one another's voices, even during prayer.

Iranian state television today featured a man who appeared to be the high-ranking commander of Iran’s Quds Force, Ismail Qaani, in a ceremony for a Revolutionary Guards of Iran commander killed in Lebanon.

Ismail Qaani first became known to the wider Western public in 2020 when he was chosen to replace Qassem Soleimani, who was killed by an American drone outside Baghdad Airport.

The vision of Edi Rama to create a “Vatican for Bektashi” in Tirana, as well as his ambition to establish the smallest state within a state in the world,

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) had ruled Friday that gender and nationality alone were sufficient for a country to grant asylum to women from Afghanistan, where the ruling Taliban have sharply curtailed women's rights.

Iran has built a wall more than 10 kilometers long on the border with Afghanistan, a key passage for Afghan migrants into the country, an army officer said today, according to local media.