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The Taliban terrorist organization ruling Afghanistan confirmed on Wednesday that it had formally banned mixed martial arts (MMA), a sport that began thriving in the country in the final years before the fall of Kabul in 2021.

The official state news agency of Afghanistan, under the control of the ruling Taliban, claimed in a report on Monday that the United Nations Political Mission for Afghanistan (UNAMA) was working to “facilitate small-scale projects through loan provisions” in a now-deleted article.

On the third anniversary of the Kabul airport bombing that killed 13 American service members and 170 Afghans during President Joe Biden’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, Vice President Kamala Harris put out a statement praising Biden’s “courageous” decision to withdraw and insisted he made no mistakes worth mentioning.

The Taliban in Afghanistan issued a decree banning women from showing their faces, or speaking loudly enough to be heard, in public.

The Taliban announced that U.N. Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Afghanistan Richard Bennett has been banned from entering the country.

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) found on Tuesday that three years after the Taliban takeover, 48 percent of Afghanistan’s population is living below the poverty line, 12.4 percent are suffering “food insecurity,” and 23.7 million rely on foreign aid.

The Taliban on Wednesday celebrated the three-year anniversary of the disastrous Biden-Harris withdrawal that gave them power in Afghanistan, more secure in power than ever despite constant complaints from the international community about their appalling human rights offenses.

Afghanistan marked three years since the return to power of the Taliban on Thursday as a repressive, dangerous place for women and girls.

Investigator Jerry Dunleavy resigned to protest the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s probe of the Biden-Harris disaster in Afghanistan.

The Taliban terrorist organization celebrated the third anniversary of President Joe Biden facilitating its return to power in Afghanistan on Wednesday, hosting a large military parade on the former U.S. air base site at Bagram featuring U.S.-made equipment and welcoming envoys from Iran and China.

The United States government revealed there was “an increased risk” Afghanistan terrorists or “terrorist-affiliated individuals” accidentally received $293 million in funding from the Department of State, a report details.

Vice President Kamala Harris has added her brother-in-law Tony West, who defended a convicted terrorist, to her campaign as an adviser.

The Taliban published a statement of mourning and celebration of “martyrdom” in response to the death of Hamas terrorist Ismail Haniyeh.

The U.N. reported that more than 532,000 people departed Afghanistan since April, while more than 858,000 entered it.

The Gold Star families of the 13 American servicemembers killed during the bombing of Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport amid President Joe Biden’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 addressed the Republican National Convention (RNC) on Wednesday night, condemning Biden for forgetting their children.

The U.S. State Department and the Afghan Taliban terrorist organization both confirmed this weekend that at least two, and potentially three, American citizens are currently under Taliban criminal custody in Afghanistan.

China signed a deal to import $25 million in Afghan cotton, providing income to the Taliban and muddying China’s cotton supply lines.

Members of the Taliban terrorist organization concluded their participation on Monday in a U.N.-led international meeting on the future of Afghanistan, thanking organizers for including them and specifically expressing praise for the government of U.S. President Joe Biden or the engagement.

Canada’s Globe and Mail dropped another bombshell on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s faltering government on Thursday, revealing that Trudeau’s former Defense Minister Harjit Sajjan prioritized rescuing Afghan Sikhs ahead of Canadians after the Taliban stormed Kabul in August 2021.

President Joe Biden claimed that his predecessor and rival Donald Trump “didn’t do anything” to address the two-decade-old Afghan War while in office during Thursday night’s presidential debate.

The U.N. warned that the Taliban could cause overdose deaths from synthetic alternatives by shutting down opium production in Afghanistan.

The United Nations invited the jihadist Taliban terrorist organization to a two-day conference on Afghanistan in Doha, Qatar, next weekend, its third such meeting since the Taliban seized power in 2021.

Al-Qaeda leader Sayf al-Adl reportedly urged Muslims to “go to Afghanistan” to train with the Taliban in a recent message.

The Taliban, the uncontested government of Afghanistan since 2021, used a stadium to stage a mass punishment event for 63 people on Tuesday, administering public floggings for crimes ranging from “fleeing from home” to “adultery.”

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told Russian media on Tuesday that his government is planning to remove the Afghan Taliban from its list of designated foreign terrorist organizations to facilitate diplomacy with Afghanistan.

The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction found that Joe Biden has overseen $10.9 million in payments to the Taliban.

The Taliban junta is putting some effort into reviving tourism in Afghanistan, and “adventure tourism” companies say it is working.

Bill Gates announced his foundation will open an office in Riyadh as Saudi Arabia pledged $500 million to a polio vaccination initiative.

Pakistan’s top diplomat on Afghanistan issues claimed that his country has seen a 500-percent increase in suicide terrorist attacks since 2021.

Members of the Taliban jihadist terror organization in control of Afghanistan joined a series of meetings that included representatives of United Nations agencies to discuss the alleged threat of climate change, the group organizing the talks confirmed this week.

The top Kremlin spokesman told reporters on Tuesday that Russia is considering removing the Afghan Taliban from its official terrorist organization list, paving the way to recognize the jihadists as the official government of Afghanistan and establish diplomatic ties.

An unknown terrorist rammed a vehicle carrying explosives into a convoy of Chinese engineers working on a project in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, on Tuesday, the latest in a growing number of attacks targeting China’s Belt and Road Initiative in the region.

The top spokesman for the Taliban regime of Afghanistan, Zabihullah Mujahid, repeated the terrorist organization’s claims on Monday that the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISIS-K), the jihadists’ Afghan affiliate, had been “significantly weakened” in the country under Taliban rule.

The Chinese state propaganda Global Times newspaper blamed President Joe Biden’s disastrous extension of the 20-year Afghan war and subsequent Taliban conquest of Kabul for creating the conditions to allow a harrowing terrorist attack in Moscow on Friday, which the Islamic State claimed responsibility for.

Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) said Tuesday on CNN’s “The Situation Room” that it was “absolutely unrealistic” to say the Biden administration could have avoided the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

The government of Pakistan confirmed the execution of “intelligence-based anti-terrorist operations” within Afghanistan on Monday, outraging the Taliban which claimed to have responded by bombing Pakistani military bases “with heavy weapons.”