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Former Afghan president Hamid Karzai returned to Kabul after meeting with officials from Germany, Britain, Turkiye and the United Arab Emirates.

The Taliban announced the holding of a special meeting of the Economic Commission chaired by Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada.

Local sources in Badakhshan told Afghanistan International on Monday that Taliban forces shot dead a 14-year-old Ismaili boy in Wakhan district.

The World Food Programme (WFP) said that nearly 15 million people in Afghanistan do not know where their next meal will come from.

The Taliban's Foreign Ministry announced on Monday that Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanekzai, the ministry's deputy for political affairs, discussed the establishment of consular services for Afghans in Europe, especially in the United Kingdom.

The Bild newspaper reported that the German police were aware of the holding of a funeral ceremony for Khalil-ur-Rehman Haqqani by the Afghan Cultural Association Hesse eV.

The European Union announced that it has allocated €19.8 million to the Aga Khan Foundation for the implementation of a €22 million project in Afghanistan.

Mohammad Ashraf Haqshenas, a spokesman for the Taliban's Ministry of Public Works, announced on Monday, December 16, that the Ghor-Kabul highway has been closed to traffic following heavy snowfall.

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.