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Afghanistan International sources said that 2,500 members of the Taliban are in custody of the group for various crimes.

Imangali Tasmagambetov, the Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO), warned about the dangers of the spread of terrorism, arms trafficking, drugs, and extremism from Afghanistan to the region.

The US State Department has advised US citizens not to travel to Afghanistan, due to terrorism, the risk of wrongful detention, kidnapping, and crime. The agency announced this warning in a statement on Monday.

Officials of the intelligence agencies of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) member countries discussed counter-terrorism measures in Delhi, the capital of India.

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) announced that the UN Security Council meeting on Afghanistan will be held on Wednesday.

During a meeting with Robert Dickson, Charge d'affaires of the British embassy for Afghanistan, Amir Khan Muttaqi, Taliban’s foreign minister, rejected the appointment of a UN special representative for Afghan peace talks.

For the third time, the United Nations Credentials Committee postponed the decision on handing over Afghanistan’s seat in the UN to the Taliban.

During a recent meeting with Yue Xiaoyong, China's special envoy for Afghanistan affairs, Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi requested the commencement of operations at the Aynak copper project.

An Iranian newspaper, Jomhouri-e Eslami, has published an article alleging that the Sunni Islamist armed group Jaish ul-Adl operates bases in Afghanistan with the support of the Afghan Taliban.

On Monday, Zhulia Parsi's family confirmed to Afghanistan International, that this Afghan women's rights activist has been released from the Taliban’s prison after about three months of detention.

Usman Jadoon, Deputy Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the UN, has claimed that the Pakistani Taliban possesses advanced weaponry and employs it to fuel regional instability and threaten Pakistan's security.

In an interview with TASS news agency, Semyon Grigoryev, the Russian ambassador to Tajikistan, said that the Taliban have not been able to secure Afghanistan’s borders yet.

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has released its latest quarterly report to the Security Council, revealing concerning statistics about civilian casualties in Afghanistan.

John Bolton, former US National Security Adviser, expressed regret over the US's departure from the Bagram airbase in an interview with Afghanistan International.

In an unannounced visit, Raşit Meredow, Turkmenistan’s foreign minister, visited Torghundi port in Herat province of Afghanistan on Saturday.

Pakistani media outlets reported that the country’s Chief of Army Staff, Asim Munir, expressed concern about the situation in Afghanistan and Indian Kashmir during a meeting with the Secretary General of the United Nations.

Rahmatullah Nabil, the former head of Afghan intelligence, has linked the Taliban's 2021 capture of Nimroz province to support from Jaish ul-Adl, a Sunni extremist group.

Geng Shuang, China's deputy permanent representative to the United Nations, warned that the terrorist threats in Afghanistan "remain serious".

In a virtual meeting, Ismatilla Ergashev and Tomas Nicholson, the respective Uzbekistan and European Union Envoys for Afghanistan, concurred on the critical need for unified international efforts to establish peace and stability in Afghanistan.

Neda Parwani, a prominent women's rights activist, along with her husband and child, were released by the Taliban after nearly four months in detention.

Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs urged the Taliban to take "decisive action" against the culprit of the suicide attack in Dera Ismail Khan of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.