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Iran's Ministry of Intelligence announced that 14 members of ISIS-K have been arrested following a series of operations by the country's security forces.

Abdul Hakim Sharei, the Taliban's Minister of Justice, said in a meeting with a delegation of Turkish clerics that the group formulates all its laws based on Hanafi jurisprudence.

Mohsen Safaei, an official of the Islamic Republic, announced that of the 12 districts of South Khorasan, only two districts of Khusf and Birjand are allowed to give residency to Afghans.

ISIS-K claimed responsibility for Thursday's attack on a Taliban vehicle in Dara-e-Noor District, Nangarhar Province.

Sabrina Singh, a spokesperson for Pentagon told Afghanistan International on Thursday, that the US has international partners in its efforts to defeat ISIS.

Waheeda Amiri, a women's rights activist, has stated that even if Taliban members had raped her in prison, it would not have impacted her fight for freedom.

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) announced that Afghanistan is in urgent need of 18,000 skilled midwives. UNFPA warned that if this need is not met, many women's lives will be at risk.

On Thursday, August 23, the Taliban's Supreme Court announced that an individual had been publicly flogged 39 times in Khost province after being convicted of blasphemy.

Kazakhstan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Wednesday, August 21, that it has officially recognised a Taliban diplomat as the Chargé d'Affaires of the Afghan Embassy in the country.

Sources in Nangarhar have informed Afghanistan International that at least 231 former members of the Afghan National Army, Police, and National Directorate of Security (NDS) are being held in a Taliban prison.

The Taliban's Ministry of Justice announced that Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada, the leader of the group, has enacted the "Law for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice”.

The Taliban's Supreme Court announced that a woman was flogged in Kabul on Wednesday on charges of having an extramarital affair.

Heshmatollah Soleimani, Deputy Director of Tehran Management and Planning Organisation, announced that there are officially 2.4 million "foreign nationals" in this province.

Norway-based Iran Human Rights reported that the Islamic Republic has executed 85 political prisoners, including eight Afghan citizens, in various prisons over the past 20 days.

The Taliban announced that Amir Khan Muttaqi, the group's foreign minister, traveled to Herat to meet Turkmenistan's foreign minister.

Nineteen female Afghan students arrived in Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, to continue their medical studies with the help of the Linda Norgrove Charitable Foundation.

Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban spokesperson, criticised Richard Bennett, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights for Afghanistan, for his reports on severe human rights violations in the country.

Over 13,000 people had been arrested by the Taliban's Ministry of Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice in the past year for "immoral acts".

The book "Emirate Studies" had been distributed to students of 95 schools and 21 religious schools in Spin Boldak district as per an announcement made by the Taliban's governor's office in Kandahar.

Officials of the Taliban’s Ministry of Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Virtue announced that the group destroyed 21,328 musical instruments across Afghanistan last year.

The Taliban's Foreign Ministry has rejected remarks made by Pakistani officials about the recurrence of another 9/11-type attack from Afghan soil.