Tajmir Jawad, described as a deputy intelligence chief and a key architect of Taliban suicide attacks, on Sunday praised the group’s cultural and media activists during a ceremony.
The Taliban’s Ministry of Information and Culture said Monday it has revoked the operating licences of nearly all media support organisations in Afghanistan, renewing permits for only three groups.
At least seven people have been killed in separate incidents in western city of Herat over the past week, according to information obtained by Afghanistan International.
Austria has deported an Afghan man to Kabul after he completed a prison sentence, the Interior Ministry said, marking the third such removal of an Afghan national in recent months.
The Pakistan Ulema Council has said the Taliban’s newly endorsed penal code is not based on Islamic teachings and contradicts the Quran and Sunnah, describing it as offensive to human dignity and not representative of Islamic law.
Pakistan’s exports to Afghanistan fell by about 56 percent in the first half of the 2026 fiscal year, the State Bank of Pakistan said in its latest report.
Rosemary DiCarlo, the United Nations under-secretary-general for political and peacebuilding affairs, met Sunday with Alireza Begdeli, Iran’s ambassador to Afghanistan, during her visit to Kabul.
Rosemary DiCarlo, the United Nations under-secretary-general for political and peacebuilding affairs, met Sirajuddin Haqqani, the Taliban’s interior minister, in Kabul, according to a Taliban statement.
Rosemary DiCarlo, the United Nations under-secretary-general for political and peacebuilding affairs, met Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi in Kabul on Saturday to discuss the UN-led Doha process, the Taliban Foreign Ministry said.
The death toll from three days of heavy snowfall across Afghanistan has risen to 61, with 110 people injured, a Taliban disaster management spokesperson said.
More than 2 million adolescent girls in Afghanistan are being denied access to secondary education, the United Nations said on the International Day of Education.
Representatives from about 20 European Union member states travelled to Kabul last week for talks on deporting asylum seekers to Afghanistan, Belgium’s state broadcaster reported Saturday.
Donald Trump said the role of NATO forces in the war in Afghanistan has been exaggerated, claiming allied troops stayed behind US soldiers and away from front-line fighting.
Rosemary DiCarlo, the United Nations under-secretary-general for political and peacebuilding affairs, has arrived in Afghanistan and is expected to hold talks with Taliban officials in Kabul, sources told Afghanistan International.
A senior adviser to Uzbekistan’s president says the country joined the peace initiative launched by Donald Trump primarily over security concerns, including fears about the spread of extremism from Afghanistan.
According to a document obtained by Afghanistan International, the Taliban’s Council of Clerics in Badakhshan has offered financial rewards and security guarantees to Ismaili Muslims who convert to Sunni Islam.
Local sources in Faizabad, the capital of Badakhshan province, say two young men from the Ismaili community were wounded after being shot by armed assailants.
The United Nations has urged urgent assistance as heavy snowfall continues across Afghanistan, with UNICEF warning that worsening weather is compounding the suffering of children affected by recent earthquakes in the east of the country.
The Supreme Council of National Resistance for the Salvation of Afghanistan says the Taliban’s newly approved penal code would push the country into conditions “far worse than the Middle Ages”.
Sweden’s migration minister said on Thursday that deporting Afghan nationals whose asylum applications have been rejected is “almost impossible” because many lack national identity cards and passports.
The European Union has announced the launch of the second phase of its Afghan Women’s Economic Empowerment Programme, committing €10 million to support women’s livelihoods in Afghanistan.
Sources told Afghanistan International that the Taliban have placed a guesthouse in Kabul housing Afghans promised admission to Germany under heightened surveillance following a raid earlier this week.