At a recent a meeting held between Afghan Taliban's Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani and Russian Ambassador to Kabul Dmitry Zhirnov, it was decided that the two countries would establish an enhanced security cooperation in the coming months. According to a statement issued by the Interior Ministry of Afghanistan on March 5, 2024, Sirajuddin Haqqani, the Taliban minister
In early December 2023, Dr. Ali Al-Qaradaghi, the secretary general of the Qatar-funded International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS), led a delegation of Islamic religious scholars to Kabul where the clerics, during multiple meetings with Afghan Taliban ministers, discussed similarities between the Palestinian resistance against Israel and the Afghan Taliban's 20-year jihad
A delegation of Islamic religious scholars from the Qatar-funded International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) visited Kabul in early December 2023, conveying messages from Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani to Afghan Taliban rulers. During the meetings, parallels were drawn between the Palestinian resistance against Israel