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The National Resistance Front (NRF) said on Sunday that one Taliban member was killed and two others were wounded in an attack by its fighters in Kapisa.

The Afghanistan Freedom Front (AFF) announced on Sunday evening, October 20, that it had attacked the military section of the Kabul Airport from several directions.

The Taliban's Supreme Court announced the public flogging of a man and a woman in Takhar province on charges of engaging in an extramarital relationship.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has reported that since September 2023, over 733,000 Afghans have returned to Afghanistan from Pakistan.

Sources from Takhar province have informed Afghanistan International that the Taliban has arrested seven of its own members in the Baharak district on suspicion of collaborating with ISIS.

Sources have informed Afghanistan International that the Taliban, following its ban on broadcasting images of living beings, is planning to convert some state television stations into radio outlets.

The Taliban’s Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice has initiated a campaign against the depiction of living beings in images and videos.

The Purple Saturdays Movement said in a statement that reopening Taliban-controlled schools with extremist content is more dangerous than keeping girls' schools closed.

Hasibullah Noori, the spokesman for the Taliban-controlled Central Bank of Afghanistan, announced the approval of a new law on "money exchange and services". Under the new law, no one can perform paid services without a licence, Noori said.

Citing the history of inviting the Taliban to Oslo, Human Rights Watch has said that Norway has a "cautious and ambivalent" stance on the harassment of Afghan women.

A survey by the Berlin-based Expert Council on Integration and Migration shows that many Afghans living in Germany suffer discrimination, especially in the housing market.

On Saturday, October 19, the Taliban-controlled Bakhtar News Agency announced the return of 217 Afghan refugee families from Iran and Pakistan.

The Afghanistan Freedom Front (AFF) claimed that it attacked a Taliban checkpoint at the entrance of the group's Interior Ministry on Friday evening, killing four Taliban members.

Nooruddin Azizi, the Taliban's Minister of Industry and Commerce, travelled to the city of Almaty, Kazakhstan, to participate in a trade fair.

In response to the news of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar's death, the spokesman for the Taliban's police command in Kabul said that the Taliban and Hamas share common aspirations.

Apple TV Plus, Apple's movie and series streaming service, announced that it will begin airing the documentary "Bread and Roses" on November 22 of this year.

Shahriar Heidari, a member of the Iranian parliament's National Security Committee, called Afghan "unauthorised nationals" as "border invaders" on Iranian soil.

Pakistan announced that it has imposed strict measures to prevent the issuance of national identity cards and Pakistani passports to Afghans.

Maisam Mehdipour, the Iranian deputy ambassador for media affairs, denied that Iranian border forces were shooting at Afghan refugees.

The Taliban's Supreme Court announced on Thursday that it had sentenced eight people in Khost and six people, including two women, in Kabul to flogging.

The United Nations Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has called for a thorough and transparent investigation into reports of Afghan migrants being shot in Iran’s Sistan and Baluchistan border region.