Taliban Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada has directed $9 million from Afghanistan’s new fiscal budget to support religious seminaries in Pakistan, a source close to the Taliban leadership revealed to Afghanistan International.
The Taliban has accused Pakistan of damaging bilateral relations through the harassment, abuse, and forced expulsion of Afghan migrants, as voiced by Deputy Prime Minister Abdul Salam Hanafi during a visit to the Torkham border crossing on Thursday.
Russian and Tajik military forces have completed a series of joint counterterrorism exercises near Afghanistan’s border, focusing on combating extremist groups in mountainous terrain, Russia’s Ministry of Defence announced on Friday.
A high-level Iranian delegation arrived in Herat on Thursday to explore opportunities for deepening economic and bilateral cooperation with the Taliban, Iranian media reported.
The Taliban’s Supreme Court announced on Friday, 11 April 2025, that it had executed four men in public across three Afghan provinces of Farah, Badghis, and Nimroz for murder convictions, under the Islamic principle of qisas, or retribution.
Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada met with senior officials in Paktia province on Thursday, 10 April, calling for unity and obedience, the group’s spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid announced.
The Taliban has formed a "security committee" to safeguard Afghan migrants in Pakistan amid ongoing deportations and reports of mistreatment, Shir Mohammad Sharif, head of the group's Border Police within the Ministry of Interior, announced on Thursday.
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has warned that the Taliban’s stringent bans on women’s education and employment could slash Afghanistan’s economy by $1.4 billion annually, according to World Bank estimates cited in a new UN report.
The Taliban has scheduled the public execution of three individuals convicted of murder for Friday, 12 April, in the provinces of Badghis and Nimroz, according to Abdul Rahim Rashid, spokesperson for the Taliban’s Supreme Court.
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has raised alarm over the Taliban’s “propagation of virtue and prevention of vice” law, detailing its extensive implications in a report released on Wednesday.
The Taliban’s Directorate for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice in Jowzjan province has ordered local media to cease publishing photographs and videos of living beings, intensifying a growing wave of censorship across Afghanistan.
The Taliban police command in Kandahar said four of its fighters were injured Thursday in an explosion at its headquarters, attributing the blast to a container of "old ammunition."
Sirajuddin Haqqani, the Taliban’s Interior Minister, participated in a recent high-level meeting in Kandahar without making a formal request to meet with the group’s reclusive leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, sources told Afghanistan International.
Taliban officials and representatives from Iran convened in Kabul on Wednesday to advance the complete implementation of their bilateral economic agreement, according to a statement from the office of the Taliban’s Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs.
The Taliban judiciary has confirmed that a woman and four men were publicly flogged in Afghanistan’s Sar-e Pol and Maidan Wardak provinces for alleged offences of “illicit relations” and theft.
According to data released by Pakistan’s Immigration Department, a total of 11,371 Afghan migrants were arrested and deported over a nine-day period as part of an intensified crackdown on undocumented migrants.
In an interview with Izvestia newspaper, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexey Overchuk stated that suspending the Taliban’s designation as a terrorist organisation by Russia could pave the way for economic engagement with Afghanistan.
On Wednesday, 9 April, Pakistan’s The News International reported that Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has acquired FGM-148 Javelin anti-tank guided missiles, manufactured in the United States.
The Taliban’s commission for addressing migrants’ issues announced that a total of 5,932 Afghan migrants were deported from Iran and Pakistan on Tuesday, 8 April.
Mohammad Reza Aref, Vice President of Iran, during a visit to Khorasan Province, called for strengthening cross-border relations with neighbouring countries, particularly Afghanistan.
The humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has reported the first confirmed cases of child malnutrition in a refugee camp on the Greek island of Samos.