
Taliban Seizes Mobile Phones in Wake of Mazar-i-Sharif Blast
Following a blast in Mazar-i-Sharif's District 4, eyewitnesses reported that the Taliban confiscated mobile phones of individuals, using the device to capture the scene.

Following a blast in Mazar-i-Sharif's District 4, eyewitnesses reported that the Taliban confiscated mobile phones of individuals, using the device to capture the scene.

Residents in West Kabul reported an explosion in the Dasht-e Barchi neighbourhood at approximately 3:10pm on Thursday. Details about the explosion, including its cause and any casualties, remain unconfirmed as of now.

US Senator Eric Schmitt expressed concern regarding China's growing presence in Afghanistan, highlighting it as an important issue for the US.

The Afghanistan Freedom Front (AFF) has claimed responsibility for an attack on a Taliban intelligence forces’ convoy in Kabul's Khairkhana area.

Hossein Salimi, head of Iranian and Foreign Joint Investment Association, has reported a substantial increase in Afghan business activities in Iran, with investments doubling in volume over the past ten months as compared to the previous year.

In Herat, a bomb explosion in the city's second district resulted in injuries to seven civilians, which has been confirmed by the Taliban police spokesperson Abdullah Insaf.

Habibullah Badr, the Deputy for Military Affairs of the Taliban's Prisons Authority, has reported that there are 19,000 detainees, including 800 women, in Taliban-run prisons across Afghanistan.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry has issued a statement titled "The Necessity of Resolving the Afghan Issue," asserting that Afghanistan cannot afford another failure.

Hassan Kazemi Qomi, Iran's Special Envoy for Afghanistan, stated that Amir Khan Muttaqi, the Taliban's Foreign Minister welcomed Iran's proposal for forming a regional contact group on Afghanistan.

Vahid Jalazadeh, head of the National Security and Foreign Policy Commission of the Iranian parliament, has called for increased diplomatic pressure on the Taliban in response to the recent explosions in Kerman.

Khalid Zadran, Taliban’s spokesperson of police in Kabul, confirmed that at least three people have been killed and four others got injured due to an explosion in a car in eastern Kabul.

Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the Speaker of the Islamic Republic of Iran's Parliament, met with his Tajik counterpart, Rustam Emomali, in Tehran and expressed concerns over ISIS's activities in Afghanistan.

The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) has expressed concern in a report to the US Congress about the Taliban's misuse of Afghan funds in Switzerland.

Afghanistan's state television, under Taliban’s control, expurgated the face of Roza Otunbayeva, the United Nations Secretary-General's Representative for Afghanistan, during her meeting with the Taliban's Minister of Agriculture on Monday.

The Iranian Embassy in Kabul has declared that Tehran will not back any military action against Afghanistan's territorial integrity.

The American University of Afghanistan (AUAF) announced that it will provide a one-year education opportunity for Afghan students, especially girls, who have been deprived of education.

Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban’s spokesperson, has confirmed the detention of several women accused of promoting "improper hijab," as reported by the group’s Ministry of Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice.

In a meeting with Maulana Fazal-ur-Rehman, leader of Pakistan's Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, Abdul Kabir, the Taliban's Deputy Prime Minister for Political Affairs, reassured that Afghanistan, under the group’s control, poses no threat to Pakistan.

On Sunday, the Taliban's Supreme Court announced the public flogging of four individuals, each sentenced to 39 lashes for “sodomy” in Kandahar province.

Hassan Kazemi Qomi, Iran’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, met the Deputy Prime Minister of the Taliban, Abdul Kabir, on Sunday.

Recently leaked audio files on WhatsApp groups of educational centres reveal the deployment of "spies" in schools to monitor the attire of female students by the Taliban's Ministry of Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice.