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Zablon Simintov, the last Jew from Afghanistan, arrived in Israel on Monday with the help of a Jewish Agency.

Abdullah Khanjani, the political head of the National Resistance Front (NRF) of Afghanistan, has begun a series of meetings with key leaders of groups opposing the Taliban.

The Hengaw Human Rights Organisation reported that the Islamic Republic has executed an Afghan prisoner at the Zahedan Central Prison.

The Afghan embassy in Australia announced that the Taliban has made efforts to disrupt the consular services of the embassy.

The Taliban's Supreme Court announced that the group's primary court in Muqur district of Ghazni province has punished a woman and a man on charges of extramarital affairs.

Malala Yousafzai, the Nobel Peace Prize winner, has warned that the Taliban's ideology is not limited to Afghanistan, but has also spread across Pakistan and will spread to the rest of the world too.

Caitlan Coleman, an American citizen, who was imprisoned by the Taliban and the Haqqani Network for five years, has filed a lawsuit against the Taliban in a court in the US state of Pennsylvania.

Pakistan's Defence Minister Khawaja Asif called the deadly Quetta attack part of India's proxy war against Pakistan and accused the Afghan Taliban of "collusion and ignorance".

The office of Mullah Baradar, Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs of the Taliban, has announced the launch of extraction operations at 21 major mines in various regions across Afghanistan.

The Sunday Guardian has reported that India is considering accepting Ikramuddin Kamil as a Taliban representative, with a potential appointment as Second Secretary at Afghanistan's consulate in Mumbai.

Matiul Haq Khalis, head of the Taliban’s Environmental Protection Agency, has led a delegation to participate in the United Nations climate change conference in Baku.

Fazl Mohammad Haqqani, the Taliban representative in Tehran, attended the “Nasrallah School” conference on Saturday, held in Tehran to mark the 40th day since the death of Hassan Nasrallah, the former Secretary-General of Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada, the leader of the Taliban, has issued a directive instructing the group’s intelligence agency to identify and halt foreign funding sources for “Ahl-e-Hadith” seminaries in Afghanistan’s Kunar province.

A court in Germany has fined Detlef Gürth, a former member of parliament in the state of Saxony-Anhalt and a member of the Christian Democratic Party, 18,000 euros for insulting Afghans.

Pakistani health authorities on Friday (November 8) announced the identification of two new cases of polio in Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces. With the identification of these two new cases, the total number of polio cases in Pakistan this year has reached 48.

Nasir Ahmad Faiq, Afghanistan's acting representative to the United Nations, said that the condition of Afghan refugees in Iran and Pakistan is "dire”.

Ehsan Heidari, a high-ranking official of the Immigrant and Foreign Nationals Affairs of Tehran Governorate, said that since the beginning of the project to organise child labour, 930 child laborers and their 650 families have been deported.

The US Department of Justice announced that Farhad Shakeri, who was assigned by Iran to assassinate Donald Trump, is an Afghan.

Indian External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said that India's envoy had travelled to Kabul to discuss the use of Chabahar port to strengthen economic ties and humanitarian aid.

Swiss radio and television reported that the country has resumed the process of deporting some Afghan and Ukrainian foreign criminals after a hiatus of several years.

Imangali Tasmagambetov, the secretary-general of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) warned that the risk of the spread of terrorism in Central Asia remains.