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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has once again warned of the potential return of NATO forces to Afghanistan.

Yousuf Wafa, the Taliban’s governor of Balkh province, has led a high-level delegation of northern governors to central Ghor province to assess the region’s security situation.

The Taliban inaugurated two major renewable energy projects in Herat province on Saturday: a 43.2-megawatt wind power plant and a 5-megawatt solar energy facility.

The cabinet of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has passed a resolution denouncing the federal government’s policy towards Afghanistan as “ineffective”. The cabinet members called for an immediate review of these policies.

On 21 May 2016, three days after the killing of Akhtar Mohammad Mansour, the former leader of the Taliban, discussions began within the group regarding the selection of a new leader.

On Saturday, the Taliban's Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation said that Tajikistan deported 49 Afghan migrants on Wednesday and Thursday. The group re-entered Afghanistan via the Sher Khan border crossing in Kunduz province.

The Taliban’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has welcomed Pakistan’s decision to elevate its diplomatic mission in Kabul from a chargé d’affaires to a full ambassador. The group described Pakistan’s move as a positive step towards strengthening bilateral relations.

During a Taliban-organised rally in support of Palestine on Friday, several residents in Andarab raised the flag of the National Resistance Front alongside the Palestinian flag, according to local sources.

Shokofa Safari, a 28-year-old former Afghan National Army officer, has alleged that Taliban members gang-raped her over two nights while she was detained in Kabul, according to an interview with Rukhshana Media.

The National Resistance Front (NRF) has claimed responsibility for a targeted operation that killed the deputy chief of the Taliban’s Police District 8 and one of his bodyguards in the city of Kunduz.

Pakistani authorities have freed four members of the Taliban’s intelligence unit from a prison in Peshawar, sources told Afghanistan International on Friday.

India has resumed issuing visas to Afghans in six categories, the Ministry of External Affairs announced Thursday, May 29, 2025, marking a shift in policy after a four-year suspension.

A Russian Security Council delegation recently visited Kabul to discuss strengthening bilateral relations and trade with Taliban officials, Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu said Thursday.

Most websites of Taliban ministries have been restored following a cyberattack that disrupted over 20 government sites.

Documents obtained by Afghanistan International reveal that the Taliban’s Ministry of Defence has dismissed 4403 officers and staff across the country, with 1000 of those removed from Badakhshan province alone.

The Taliban’s Security and Purge Commission convened a meeting on Wednesday, 28 May, in Kabul, chaired by the group’s acting Defence Minister, Yaqub Mujahid.

Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai met with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and envoys from five Western nations during a recent trip to Rome, diplomatic sources told Afghanistan International.

The Taliban have publicly flogged five individuals in separate incidents in Kabul and Kunduz provinces, according to a statement issued by the group’s Supreme Court on Thursday.

Local sources have reported ongoing clashes between Taliban forces and Pakistani border guards in the Bahramcha district of Helmand province.

Iran’s Ministry of Interior has officially commenced the deportation of Afghan migrants holding expired census cards, marking a significant shift in the country’s immigration policy.

The Committee to Protect Journalists and fourteen other organisations have urged Pakistan to immediately halt deportation of Afghan journalists and other vulnerable Afghan migrants.