The Taliban Defence Ministry said Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid visited the first border battalion of the 15th Border Brigade in Ishkashim district of Badakhshan, near Afghanistan’s border with Tajikistan.
Human rights organisation Hana says many Afghans in Iran, particularly women and children, face severe legal restrictions, major barriers to civil registration and significant obstacles to accessing justice.
Uzbek media reported that the country’s security forces foiled an attempt to smuggle drugs by drone from Afghanistan into the Surxondaryo region. Authorities said they seized a drone carrying just over 2 kilograms of opium.
Taliban Deputy Prime Minister Abdul Salam Hanafi criticised the group's exclusion from international meetings, saying humanitarian aid to Afghanistan should not be made conditional on political considerations.
Pakistani security sources told Afghanistan International on Sunday that three Pakistani border troops were wounded after Taliban border forces opened fire on Pakistani border posts in Khyber district. One of the injured is reported to be in critical condition.
Asif Durrani, Pakistan’s former envoy for Afghanistan, says the Taliban’s harbouring of terrorist groups risks a repeat of the 9/11 attacks and could have unpredictable consequences for the region.
Taliban authorities in Nangarhar say a group’s commander in Chaparhar district was shot dead on Friday, and his brother has been arrested on suspicion of killing him.
Reports from Afghanistan’s north-eastern Badakhshan province indicate that internal Taliban tensions have reached a peak.
Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi met Bangladeshi Parliament Speaker Hafiz Uddin Ahmad during his visit to Tehran. The Taliban Foreign Ministry said the talks focused on expanding bilateral ties, particularly trade cooperation.
A credible source in Kabul told Afghanistan International on Saturday that about 20 students were injured in Friday night's explosion at Kabul University. They were taken to Aliabad Hospital, and their condition is reported to be stable.
Sources told Afghanistan International that Khalid Masood, a commander of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), was killed in Afghanistan’s Ghazni province. Taliban authorities have not commented on the incident.
Hussain Yasa, spokesperson for the National Resistance Council for the Salvation of Afghanistan, said no meetings will take place in Tehran between leaders of anti-Taliban groups and the Taliban’s deputy prime minister or other senior Taliban officials.
Local sources in Badakhshan told Afghanistan International that a Taliban delegation sent by the group's leader failed to reach an agreement with dissident Taliban commander Juma Khan Fateh. Sources said Taliban military activity has since intensified.
Former Pakistani envoy for Afghanistan Asif Durrani said Pakistan will continue striking targets inside Afghanistan as long as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan militants launch attacks on Pakistan from Afghan territory.
The hacker group Afghan Dragons says it has taken the Taliban Defence Ministry’s website offline in protest against the suppression of protesters in Afghanistan, particularly the detention of women in Herat.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian met Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban’s deputy prime minister for economic affairs, on Friday on the sidelines of former Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei’s funeral in Tehran.
The US State Department said Washington supports Pakistan’s right to defend itself against terrorist attacks. The statement comes after Pakistan has carried out at least 13 cross-border strikes inside Afghanistan in recent years.
Sources close to former Afghan President Hamid Karzai told Afghanistan International that the Taliban did not allow him to attend the official funeral of former supreme Iranian leader Ali Khamenei.
Sources told Afghanistan International that the Taliban detained at least 12 women and one man from three areas of Herat on Thursday. Witnesses said the number of detained women may be higher.
Iran invited both the Taliban and its Afghan opponents to attend the funeral of former Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi in Tehran. Muttaqi and the Taliban’s deputy prime minister for economic affairs are in Iran to attend the funeral of former Iranian Supreme leader Ali Khamenei.