The Taliban’s Ministry of Higher Education said a faculty of what it described as “Prophetic Traditional Medicine” will be established at Kabul Medical University under a decree by the group’s leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada.
A new round of polio vaccination began Monday in 18 provinces of Afghanistan, a spokesperson for the Taliban-run Ministry of Public Health said.
The Taliban’s ambassador to Russia said Afghanistan, as an observer member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, should be allowed to participate in the bloc’s meetings.
The Taliban’s ambassador to Russia said the number of direct flights between Afghanistan and Russia is expected to increase.
Pakistan’s ambassador to the United Nations said militant attacks from Afghanistan into Pakistan have increased sharply and described the situation as “intolerable”.
A Saudi company has expressed interest in investing in the TAPI gas pipeline project, Taliban officials said after talks with Turkmenistan’s foreign minister.
More than two-thirds of Afghanistan’s provinces are facing drought and water shortages, with about 16 million people in urgent need of safe drinking water, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said.
The head of the Pakistan Ulema Council accused the Taliban authorities in Afghanistan of supporting militants and failing to act against armed groups targeting Pakistan.
Cannabis and opium remain the most widely used drugs among men in Afghanistan, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime said in its latest assessment.
A Taliban minister said the group’s administration would implement its policies without obstruction and that no one could prevent it from doing so.
Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said that despite efforts to curb narcotics trafficking, drugs are still being smuggled from Afghanistan into Tajikistan.
Afghanistan’s embassy in Tokyo formally ceased operations on Saturday, according to the mission’s outgoing ambassador.
Human Rights Watch is urging Western governments to follow through on commitments to pursue legal action against the Taliban at the world’s top court over rights violations.
At least 60 people have been flogged across Afghanistan over the past week on various charges, according to a statement from the Taliban Supreme Court. Courts in several provinces also handed down prison sentences alongside public floggings.
Officials in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province have warned the federal government that the continued suspension of border trade with Afghanistan is causing significant economic losses.
Tajik border guards clashed with a group of armed men along the border with Afghanistan, leaving three of the suspects dead, the state-run Khovar news agency reported.
Trade between Taliban and Uzbekistan reached $1.7 billion in 2025, a sharp increase from about $1.1 billion in 2024, Uzbek news agencies reported, citing data from the country’s National Statistics Committee.
The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee has approved legislation seeking to halt US assistance to Afghanistan under Taliban control.
Taliban intelligence forces have arrested Jan Ali Akbari, the former deputy head of the Ulama Council in Malistan district of Ghazni province, according to local sources.
The Taliban Supreme Court said it had flogged 18 people in Kabul on charges including the sale and trafficking of alcohol, cannabis, methamphetamine and prohibited tablets.
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization and the Asian Development Bank have launched a $100 million food security project in Afghanistan.
Australia’s foreign minister said her country, alongside international partners, is continuing legal action against the Taliban over violations of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.