Qari Motiur Rahman served as district governor of Shuhada in Badakhshan for just seven days. Before entering his second week in office, the Taliban removed him and appointed a new district governor.
Qayum Malang, commander of the Sepah-e Mihan Front, released his first audio message five days after the attack on Yaftal district in Badakhshan, saying he and his fighters were safe.
Local sources in Badakhshan told Afghanistan International that the Taliban has ordered gunmen loyal to dissident local commander Juma Khan Fateh in Shekay and Nusay districts to surrender their weapons as soon as possible.
Sources told Afghanistan International that former president Hamid Karzai is barred by the Taliban from travelling even to his native Kandahar and faces tight restrictions on his movements and meetings.
The UN secretary-general’s spokesman Stéphane Dujarric says more than 40 people have died in recent floods in Nuristan, while others remain missing. Search-and-rescue operations are continuing.
Germany’s federal interior minister, Alexander Dobrindt, has said the government will continue deporting convicted asylum seekers to Afghanistan following a deadly knife attack in Trier.
A number of mine workers in Badakhshan protested on Tuesday over the Taliban’s continued closure of mining sites, saying Taliban forces threatened and beat some workers and ignored their demands.
Sources told Afghanistan International that the Taliban has compiled lists of former security personnel in Kandahar, Helmand and Uruzgan and begun surveilling them, including by phone to verify where they live.
The Taliban’s Interior Ministry says its forces seized more than 700 kilograms of opium in Badakhshan province and arrested two people in connection with trafficking the drugs.
The Taliban’s Justice Ministry said on Tuesday, 21 July, that more than 7,400 acres of land in Yusuf Khel district of Paktika province had been officially classified as state-owned property.
A girl due to enter seventh grade in 2022 is now about 17 or 18. Had things continued normally, she would have finished school and be preparing for the university entrance exam.
Sources in Kandahar told Afghanistan International that the Taliban leader’s office rejected a request by representatives of the World Bank, Asian Development Bank and other global organisations to meet Hibatullah Akhundzada.
The Taliban’s disaster management authority says flash floods in Parun, the capital of Nuristan province, have killed at least 20 people, injured 80 and left about 100 missing.
A day after unidentified attackers fired rockets at a Taliban border battalion in Badakhshan’s Khwahan district, a Taliban Defence Ministry official met Tajikistan’s ambassador in Kabul to discuss border issues.
The Taliban governor’s spokesman in Khost, Mustaghfir Gurbaz, has confirmed the killing of Nangyalai, a former member of the Khost Protection Force, saying he was killed over a “personal dispute”.
Three days after Yaftal district was briefly seized, the Taliban made sweeping changes to district leadership, police commands and intelligence offices across several districts of Badakhshan.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs says 4.9 million mothers and children in Afghanistan need food assistance, warning that timely action could save millions of lives.
The Taliban-run central bank has urged the Afghanistan Credit Guarantee Foundation to provide its services equally across the country without discrimination.
The Norwegian Afghanistan Committee says it will continue humanitarian work in Afghanistan regardless of political considerations, while urging greater focus on the abilities and talents of people with disabilities.
Taliban officials in Helmand say they burned 6,882kg of smuggled medicines seized at the province’s customs facilities over the past three weeks and warned traders against importing contraband goods.
Local sources told Afghanistan International that a former intelligence officer was killed in Daikundi and a tribal elder was murdered in Ghazni’s Qarabagh district in separate incidents.
Students at the Taliban-run Police Academy in Kabul say classes have not resumed nearly four months after the winter break, with no explanation given for the delay.