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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.

Hamdullah Fitrat, deputy spokesperson of the Taliban, has called for the lifting of international sanctions against the group. He stated that the continuation of sanctions against the Taliban “violates the rights of Afghans.”

Reliable sources in Kabul have informed Afghanistan International that the Taliban’s intelligence agency has arrested two employees of the Ministry of Refugees on charges of involvement in the assassination of Khalil-ur-Rahman Haqqani, the Taliban’s Minister of Refugees.

The US Department of Justice announced that it has sentenced Abdul Sattar Barakzai, 59, to 30 years in prison for “participating in narcoterrorism for the benefit of the Taliban and the Haqqani Network.”

he leader of the Hezb-e-Islami party traveled to Paktia to attend the funeral of Khalil-ur-Rahman Haqqani, the Taliban's Minister of Refugees.

Save the Children said that the economic crisis, droughts and recurring floods in Afghanistan have affected the lives of children in the country.

The Thai immigration office at Phuket International Airport arrested three Afghan men and a woman on charges of possessing fake Kazakh passports.

Spain's foreign minister condemned the Taliban's restrictions on women at a conference in Madrid attended by dozens of Afghan women activists and representatives from various countries.

Yue Xiaoyong, China's envoy to Afghanistan, announced his meeting with Sharaf Rahimi, head of the strategic studies department of the Tajik Foreign Ministry.

In its annual report on terrorism, the US State Department announced that the Taliban continues to host and shelter al-Qaeda in Afghanistan.

Andrés Efren Montalvo Sosa, head of the UN Sanctions Committee said on Thursday (December 12) that a number of key Taliban officials are complicit in drug cartels and production and trafficking networks.

Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations Security Council, has warned that ISIS is actively seeking to destabilise Afghanistan and the wider region.

A Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said that a United Nations Security Council meeting on Afghanistan without the presence of a representative of the group is "useless”.

The Taliban's Supreme Court announced the flogging of two people for alleged extramarital affairs in Kabul.

Tim Burchett, a pro-Trump representative in the US Congress, told Afghanistan International that he had invited Ahmad Massoud, the leader of the National Resistance Front (NRF), to visit Washington and discuss Afghanistan.