On the sidelines of the Moscow International Security Forum, an agreement on military and technical cooperation was signed between the Government of Afghanistan and the Russian Federation, in the presence of Afghanistan’s Minister of Defense and the Secretary of Russia’s Security Council. However, the details, scope, and precise content of this agreement have not yet been made available to the public in a transparent manner.

According to an annual report prepared with the support of the United Nations and released on 24 April, two-thirds of the people facing food insecurity worldwide live in just ten countries, including Afghanistan. The majority of these countries are in the Muslim world. This reality demonstrates that poverty and hunger in Afghanistan and across the Muslim world are not temporary phenomena...

On Saturday night, 21 Feb. 2026, Pakistan’s army carried out airstrikes on seven areas in the provinces of Nangarhar and Paktika. Dozens of civilians, including women and children...

Since mid-October—following intense border clashes, Pakistan’s airstrikes inside Afghanistan, and retaliatory actions by Afghan forces—the main crossing points along the Durand Line have remained closed. This has brought bilateral trade to a complete halt, cut off family visits and medical travel, and imposed heavy monthly economic losses—amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars—on Muslim people on both sides.