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A US State Department spokesperson said that Washington has the ability to engage with "designated terrorist groups" to advance US interests.

Sources confirmed to Afghanistan International that Rahm Dil Hanafi, one of Ashraf Ghani's former bodyguards, committed suicide in Kabul on Sunday, December 15, due to the arrest of his wife by the Taliban.

In separate messages, the two branches of al-Qaeda condemned the assassination of Khalil-ur-Rehman Haqqani, the Taliban's minister of refugees and a prominent member of the Haqqani network.

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has announced that 22.9 million people in Afghanistan are in need of humanitarian assistance in 2025.

The Russian parliament has paved the way for the normalisation of relations with the Taliban by passing a law that allows the temporary suspension of the ban on "terrorist groups" in the country.

Robert Chatterton Dickson, the chargé d'affaires of the British embassy in Afghanistan has said that there are many potential areas for cooperation with the Taliban, but it is conditional on the Taliban's positive actions in the field of human rights.

Former Afghan president Hamid Karzai returned to Kabul after meeting with officials from Germany, Britain, Turkiye and the United Arab Emirates.

The Taliban announced the holding of a special meeting of the Economic Commission chaired by Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada.

Local sources in Badakhshan told Afghanistan International on Monday that Taliban forces shot dead a 14-year-old Ismaili boy in Wakhan district.

The World Food Programme (WFP) said that nearly 15 million people in Afghanistan do not know where their next meal will come from.

The Taliban's Foreign Ministry announced on Monday that Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanekzai, the ministry's deputy for political affairs, discussed the establishment of consular services for Afghans in Europe, especially in the United Kingdom.

The Bild newspaper reported that the German police were aware of the holding of a funeral ceremony for Khalil-ur-Rehman Haqqani by the Afghan Cultural Association Hesse eV.

The European Union announced that it has allocated €19.8 million to the Aga Khan Foundation for the implementation of a €22 million project in Afghanistan.

Mohammad Ashraf Haqshenas, a spokesman for the Taliban's Ministry of Public Works, announced on Monday, December 16, that the Ghor-Kabul highway has been closed to traffic following heavy snowfall.

Esmatullah Muradi, the spokesman for the Taliban governor in Samangan, without providing specific figures, said that "all" workers trapped in a coal mine in Samangan were rescued.

The Taliban-controlled Bakhtar News Agency reported that Patricia McPhillips, head of UNESCO's office in Afghanistan, visited Minar-e-Jam in Ghor Province.

The Taliban’s Supreme Court has announced that a woman and two men were publicly flogged in the Khuram wa Sarbagh district of Samangan province, accused of “illicit relations” and fleeing from home.

Local sources have confirmed that approximately 35 workers remain trapped under rubble following a mine collapse in the Dara-i Sufi Payin district of Samangan province, Afghanistan.

The Taliban-controlled Bakhtar News Agency has reported that the Herat-Torghundi Highway in western Afghanistan has been closed to traffic due to heavy snowfall.

The Taliban’s Ministry of Commerce and Industry has announced a significant increase in coal exports, revealing that approximately 654,000 tonnes of coal were exported over the past eight months to Pakistan, China, Iran, India, and Türkiye.

Mehdi Bakhshi, the Prosecutor General of Kerman, Iran, has announced that 1,788 undocumented Afghan migrants have been arrested and deported from the province over the past three days.