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Türkiye’s 77 Construction Company will invest $65 million in the first phase of a wind power plant project in Herat, Afghanistan, Anadolu Agency has reported.

A number of Iranian civil society organisations advocating for children’s rights have issued a joint statement calling for an immediate halt to the government’s crackdown on Afghan migrants.

Abdul Hakim Haqqani, the Taliban’s chief justice, said in an Eid al-Adha speech that with the group’s return to power, there is no longer any excuse for not fully implementing Islamic Sharia.

Police in Zahedan, the capital of Iran’s Sistan and Baluchestan province, have detained at least 661 undocumented Afghan migrants, authorities said.

The international humanitarian organisation Mercy Corps has issued a stark warning that seven million residents of Kabul face a life-threatening water crisis.

Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban’s spokesperson, censored parts of an audio recording of Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada’s Eid speech at the Eidgah Mosque in Kandahar.

During his Eid speech at the Afghan presidential palace, Taliban Prime Minister Mohammad Hassan Akhund called on religious clerics and scholars to safeguard and defend the group’s rule.

Fatemeh Mohajerani, spokesperson for the Iranian government, has said that under Iranian law, Afghan migrants with valid documents are permitted to reside in the country, while those without documentation will be deported.

The Russian newspaper Vedomosti has reported that Protey, a Russian company currently under US sanctions, has installed 4G network antennas across Afghanistan.

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has confirmed that female staff members in Kabul have been threatened amid reports that individuals linked to the Taliban have stalked and issued death threats to Afghan women working for the organisation.

Richard Bennett, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, has called for an immediate review and reversal of US sanctions imposed on four female judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Dina Titus, the representative for Nevada, announced that she and nine other members of the US Congress have sent a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, opposing the decision to shut down the Office of the Coordinator for Afghan Relocation Efforts (CARE).

Rahim Sekandar, a prominent pro-Taliban figure on social media, has confirmed that he is currently being held by the group.

The Taliban’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced Friday that Nanda Avalist, Indonesia’s newly appointed chargé d’affaires to Afghanistan, has arrived in Kabul and held a meeting with the group’s foreign minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi.

Two decades after the 9/11 attacks, the Taliban remain widely regarded as a fundamentalist and repressive group. However, their legal and political status varies and is often contradictory across different countries and international institutions.

The import of coal and soapstone from Afghanistan to Pakistan has been halted, according to reports in Pakistani media.

The Taliban Supreme Court has announced that 14 individuals, including one woman, were publicly flogged in the provinces of Kabul, Khost, Parwan and Paktika on charges including drug trafficking, running away from home and theft.

US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order imposing a broad travel ban on citizens of Afghanistan and 11 other countries, effectively suspending their entry into the United States.

Amir Khan Muttaqi, the Taliban foreign minister, has said the group wants access to Afghan communities in Europe to provide consular services and to defend what it describes as the “human rights” of Afghans living abroad.

The General Directorate for Migrants and Foreign Nationals of Fars Province has announced that all Afghan migrants holding return permits to Afghanistan must leave Iran by 6 July.

More than 80 human rights organisations have issued a joint statement condemning the execution of Afghan nationals in Iran and calling for an immediate halt to the practice.