Sohrab Sarwari

Afghan mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter Zafar Mohsen defeated his Swedish opponent in a Germany-based Oktagon MMA event.

Afghanistan’s national futsal team will face Vietnam in a friendly match today. The game is scheduled to kick off at 2:30 pm local time on Sunday and will be hosted in Vietnam.

The White House has announced that, based on information it has received, the implementation of about 800 execution sentences in Iran has been suspended. Iran’s foreign minister, however, has said that Tehran has no plan to execute protesters.

The newly appointed country director of Save the Children in Afghanistan, Bojar Hoja, has pledged to enhance maternal and child health services and expand health centres across the country.

The UN Security Council (UNSC) will meet on Thursday to discuss the situation in Iran, according to a spokeswoman for Somalia’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations. Somalia holds the rotating presidency of the council for January.

US President Donald Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East has announced the launch of the second phase of the US mediation plan aimed at ending the war in Gaza, Al Jazeera reports.

The Ministry of Transport of Uzbekistan has announced that the country has resolved key organizational issues related to the Afghan–Trans Railway project and work is now underway to prepare a feasibility study for the initiative.

The United States has urged its citizens to leave Iran immediately, according to a media report on Tuesday.

Iran’s Parliamentary Speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, has warned that regional US military bases and Israel would be considered “legitimate targets” if America were to strike the Islamic Republic.

The Special Trust Fund for Afghanistan (STFA) has announced that Sweden has contributed $6.4 million in aid to the country.

Minister of Higher Education Sheikh Neda Mohammad Nadeem travelled to Oman at the head of a delegation on Sunday to expand and strengthen academic cooperation.

The Iranian ambassador to Kabul has invited Afghanistan’s Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock to participate in the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) meeting in Tehran.