The Taliban's spokesman announced the unexpected visit of Sirajuddin Haqqani, the group's interior minister, to the UAE and his meeting with Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the country's president.
Pakistan's special envoy to Afghanistan said that he had discussed with his Iranian counterpart the international geopolitical situation and the regional challenges facing the two countries.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said that the United States is considering returning its military infrastructure to Afghanistan.
A US official told Reuters news agency that flights of 1,660 Afghan refugees, including family members of US military partners, who were scheduled to travel to the United States have been cancelled on Trump's orders.
Zhao Xing, China's ambassador to Kabul on Monday said at a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Afghanistan and China that Beijing does not interfere in Afghanistan's internal affairs.
The Taliban's Foreign Ministry announced that one of the group's prisoners in the United States has been released as a result of an exchange with American citizens.
Local sources from the eastern provinces of Afghanistan reported that following the Taliban’s takeover of power, Salafis, along with other religious sects in Afghanistan, have faced restrictions.
Two days after the announcement of the death of Hamza Ulfat, a human rights activist in Daikundi, conflicting reports have been published about the manner of his death.
A senior Republican senator has said that he is concerned about the group's attack on the United States as the Islamic State grows in Afghanistan and wars spread around the world.
According to the Sunday Guardian, the Taliban is planning to send three more diplomats to the Afghan embassy in India.
The head of the Iranian Foreign Ministry's mission in South Khorasan has said that the ministry is ready to set up an Afghan consulate in Birjand.
Zalmay Khalilzad, the former US envoy to Afghanistan, called the statements of Abbas Stanekzai, the Taliban's deputy foreign minister, about the group's violation of women's rights and opposition to the closure of schools and universities a "promising development".
US President-elect Donald Trump has announced that he will withdraw the US weapons left in Afghanistan from the Taliban.
During a meeting with the Taliban, Iran's deputy interior minister Ali Akbar Pourjamshidian called for "the establishment of a direct channel of communication between Iran's intelligence, security and law enforcement agencies" and the Taliban.
Kioumars Heydari, Commander of the Iranian Army’s Ground Forces, has announced the completion of 50 kilometres of a border wall along Iran’s shared boundary with Afghanistan.
The Afghanistan Freedom Front (AFF) has claimed responsibility for an explosion in the central square of Pol-e-Khomri city, targeting a convoy of Taliban intelligence vehicles.
The Taliban has announced that Iran will soon transfer 1,500 Afghan prisoners to Afghanistan. The announcement, made by the Taliban’s Supreme Court, did not provide specific details regarding the timing or conditions of the transfer.
Jan Egeland, Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), described the denial of girls’ education in Afghanistan as “heartbreaking” and “intolerable” during a visit to a women’s carpet-weaving centre in Herat.
The Taliban’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs has admitted that the group’s decision to bar girls from attending schools and universities lacks any religious justification.
At his farewell ceremony at the Pentagon, Lloyd Austin, the US Secretary of Defence said that with the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, "terrible things have happened to Afghan women's rights".
Zia Siraj, the former head of Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security (NDS), has alleged that al-Qaeda has managed the disputes among Taliban leaders and prevented the group's collapse.