The Taliban say they have begun paying pensions to retired workers for the first time since returning to power in 2021.
The Afghanistan Freedom Front (AFF) said its fighters killed two Taliban members in an attack on the group’s base in Taleqan, the capital of Takhar province, on Saturday evening.
Afghanistan’s Taliban-controlled power company has signed four agreements with Uzbekistan to expand electricity supply to 11 provinces, including Kabul, officials said.
The Taliban have transferred the bodies of 50 Afghan fighters affiliated with Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) to a hospital in eastern Afghanistan after they were killed in clashes with the Pakistani military, security sources said.
An Iranian police official has said deportations of undocumented Afghan migrants are continuing at pace, with 1,500 identified in Babol county alone and handed over for expulsion.
Turkiye’s ambassador to Kabul and a senior UN official have visited the remote Wakhan Corridor in Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province, highlighting development projects and the challenges faced by local communities.
Taliban officials say Pakistan has stepped up the deportation of Afghan migrants, with hundreds of families being forced to return daily.
Iran has accused the Taliban of failing to honour a key water treaty and vowed to intensify pressure on the group to secure its share of the Helmand River.
The Taliban have flogged a man and a woman in public in central Afghanistan after convicting them of “moral corruption,” the group’s Supreme Court said.
A planned gathering of Taliban opponents in Pakistan has been postponed after participants faced difficulties obtaining visas, two sources told Afghanistan International.
Four Taliban diplomats have travelled to Switzerland to help identify Afghan nationals convicted of crimes, in a move Swiss officials described as sensitive but necessary.
The Taliban are transferring the bodies of 50 Afghan fighters linked to Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) back into Afghanistan after they were killed in clashes with the Pakistani military, sources told Afghanistan International.
The Taliban administration has not been invited to the upcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in China, despite earlier claims by Taliban officials that they would take part.