Politics
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UN Official Meets Muttaqi to Discuss Doha Process and International Expectations
DID Press: Rosemary DiCarlo, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, has met with Amir Khan Muttaqi, acting foreign minister of the Taliban, during her visit to Afghanistan, discussing the Doha Process and international expectations regarding human rights,…
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Italian-Swiss Analyst: Hidden Police Agents May Be Present Among Protesters in France
DID Press: Italian-Swiss analyst Angelo Giuliano has claimed that, unlike in some countries of the Global South where he says Western non-governmental organizations have financed or supported unrest, recent protests in France may involve a different form of intervention. Giuliano…
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Former US Official: Iraq Secretly Asked Washington to Withdraw American Forces
DID Press: Lawrence Wilkerson, a former chief of staff to U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, has said that Iraqi political leaders, including the country’s current prime minister, privately asked Washington to withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq, amid concerns over…
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Yemen’s Sanaa Forces Claim Cut to Saudi-Backed Forces’ Main Supply Route in Taiz
DID Press: Nidal Hamadeh, a Germany-based political analyst and director of the Center for Crisis Studies, said in a post on X that the reported disruption of the Taiz–Al-Turbah–Aden road has cut what he described as the last major ground…
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Sanaa Forces Take Control of Strategic Rasun Mountain Range in Taiz
DID Press: Yemen’s Sanaa armed forces have taken control of the strategic Rasun mountain range in Taiz province, Al Mayadeen reported. The mountainous area overlooks a key route linking Taiz with Lahj and Aden, as fighting has increasingly focused on…
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China Rejects Trump Request to Increase Diesel Exports
DID Press: China has rejected a request from U.S. President Donald Trump to increase exports of refined petroleum products, including diesel, according to comments attributed to economist Steve Hanke, a professor at Johns Hopkins University. Hanke said Chinese refineries are…
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Afghanistan Opens Wakhan Road, Strengthening Direct Connectivity With China
DID Press: Afghanistan is set to officially inaugurate the Khameh–Wakhan road in Badakhshan province on Sunday, October 4, marking the opening of a route intended to connect Afghanistan directly with China through the Wakhan Corridor. The road, built in two…
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Pakistan, Afghanistan Face Choice Between Confrontation and Cooperation
DID Press: Rising tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan, ranging from border clashes and airstrikes to disputes over the activities of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), have brought relations between the two countries to a critical point. However, their geographic and economic interdependence…
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Former Mullah Omar Adviser Calls War with Pak Army “Hostility Toward Islam”
DID Press: Mufti Abdul Rahim, head of Karachi-based Jamiat-ul-Rashid and a former adviser to Taliban founder Mullah Omar, has criticized the Taliban’s policy toward Pakistan and called on the group to refrain from supporting the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). He described…
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Russia Offers Expanded Health Cooperation to Afghanistan
DID Press: Taliban’s acting Minister of Public Health, Mawlawi Noor Jalal Jalali, has called for expanded health cooperation with Russia, while Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko expressed Moscow’s readiness to provide technical assistance to Afghanistan’s health sector. During a meeting…
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