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Twenty-three years after the historic Bonn Conference, the German city hosted a closed-door meeting on Afghanistan on Wednesday.

In the wake of border tensions and rising insecurity in Pakistan, Obaidur Rehman Nizamani, the chargé d'affaires of the Pakistani embassy in Kabul, met with Taliban’s Defence Minister Mullah Yaqoob.

Russian Security Council Secretary, Sergei Shoigu, in a meeting with Taliban officials in Kabul, called for the start of a process for reconciliation among Afghans.

Yuri Ushakov, an aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin, said that the idea of cooperating with the Taliban has not been translated into action.

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) announced that opium production in Afghanistan has increased by 30% in 2024 as compared to the previous year.

The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) wrote in a report that attacks by opposition fronts do not pose a serious threat to the Taliban, and that the group has been able to maintain its military dominance in Afghanistan.

Tarig Ali Bakheet, the Special Representative of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) for Afghanistan discussed Afghanistan in a meeting with his British counterpart.

A Chinese delegation has traveled to Kandahar to discuss Islamabad's concerns about the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) with the Afghan Taliban leadership, sources said.

Twenty female speakers of parliaments from around the world published an article in Le Monde newspaper reaffirming their commitment to support the rights of Afghan women and girls in the field of education.

The United Nations Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has released its three-year report on the state of media freedom in Afghanistan.

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan’s (UNAMA) documented instances of human rights violations affecting 336 journalists and media workers between 15 August 2021 to 30 September 2024.

Local sources claimed that the Taliban's intelligence agency has arrested a number of its fighters and commanders who had joined the Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TPP) over the past few weeks.

The Taliban, on Monday, claimed that Sergei Shoigu, secretary of the Russian National Security Council, in a meeting with the Taliban's deputy prime minister, wants Afghanistan to return as an observer member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO).

Hassan Kazemi Qomi, Iran's special envoy for Afghanistan, who was recently dismissed from his position, had held talks with Yue Xiaoyong, China's special envoy for Afghanistan.

Sergei Shoigu, Russia's National Security Council Secretary, met with Mullah Baradar, the Taliban's Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs, during his visit to Kabul on Monday, November 25.

The Afghan Journalists in Exile, in an open letter, called on Donald Trump, the President-elect of the United States, to officially annul the Doha Agreement.

In a message on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, a number of Afghan women protesters criticised the indifference of the international community.

Imangali Tasmagambetov, the secretary general of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) said that there are still a significant number of terrorist groups in Afghanistan.

Khalil-ur-Rehman Haqqani, the Taliban's Minister of Refugees, called on Iran to refrain from confiscating the assets of Afghan refugees and to end their harassment.

The Taliban’s Prison Administration has confirmed the dismissal of Mawlawi Hafizullah Muqtada from his position as the head of prisons in Nangarhar. Sohail Saeed has been appointed as his successor.

The Taliban’s Foreign Minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, has emphasised the importance of maintaining regular exchanges between Moscow officials and Taliban representatives during a meeting with Russia’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov.