Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of Iran’s former monarch, has called on Iranian citizens to engage in widespread civil disobedience, claiming the Islamic Republic is at its most vulnerable point after decades of corruption and mismanagement.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reports that more than 10 million people in Afghanistan have been forcibly displaced due to ongoing conflict, persecution, and humanitarian crises, placing the country among the top three globally for displacement.
Iranian authorities have announced the arrest of a suspect in the murder of Kubra Rezai, a 26-year-old Afghan migrant woman whose mutilated body was discovered earlier this month in Varamin, south of Tehran.
Spanish police have requested the issuance of an international arrest warrant for Rahim Peerzada, a former Afghan diplomat accused of sexual harassment and assault.
The Taliban’s Directorate for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice in Herat province has instructed the local traffic authority to ban women from driving, according to an official letter obtained by local media.
Éric Ciotti, leader of France’s right-wing party The Republicans and a member of the National Assembly, met with Ahmad Massoud, head of Afghanistan’s National Resistance Front, during the latter’s visit to Paris this week.
Alexander Bortnikov, head of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), has warned that ISIS and its affiliates have intensified their operations in Afghanistan, posing a growing threat to regional security.
Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has called on the international community to prevent Afghanistan’s isolation and to engage in constructive dialogue with the Taliban.
Nader Yarahmadi, head of the Bureau for Aliens and Foreign Immigrants Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran, said that from March 2024 to March 2025, a total of 1,579 foreign national children were deported from Iran along with their families.
Fatemeh Mohajerani, spokesperson for the Iranian government, has said that under Iranian law, Afghan migrants with valid documents are permitted to reside in the country, while those without documentation will be deported.
Former Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has attributed the surge in terrorism in the region to the United States’ withdrawal from Afghanistan, citing the fallout as a major contributor to Pakistan’s internal security challenges.
Dozens of protesters were reportedly detained by the Taliban in Afghanistan’s northern Faryab province following a demonstration against the group's police command in Dawlat Abad district, sources told Afghanistan International.
