Hoda Khamosh, an advocate for women's rights in Afghanistan, announced that a group of women activists from Afghanistan and Iran have convened to push for the acknowledgment of "gender apartheid”.
Sources have confirmed the arrest of Najibullah Jamil, a university professor and outspoken critic of Taliban policies.
The Afghan Women’s Movement for Peace and Freedom, in an announcement on Thursday, stated that the statements made by Manizha Seddiqi, an imprisoned activist, were coerced confessions in the presence of the media.
The Taliban's Ministry of Justice, emphasising on the prohibition of political parties, announced that engaging in political activities under the guise of a party in Afghanistan is illegal.
The Taliban has put three individuals on trial, for their involvement in political activities, in a military court in Kandahar.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) has urged the Taliban to fulfil their commitments towards combating terrorism, especially in suppressing terrorist groups threatening the member states of the organisation.
The Taliban’s Supreme Court announced that two individuals in Kabul have been publicly flogged on charges of extramarital affairs, and another person in Kandahar has been flogged for involvement in drug-related crimes.
Hassan Kazemi Qomi, Iran's Special Representative for Afghanistan, has announced that the technical obstacles hindering the allocation of Iran's water rights by the Taliban have been removed.
Afghan Journalists in Exile and several other sources reported that Abdul Aleem Saqib, also known as Ahmad Hanayesh, an Afghan journalist based in Islamabad, has been attacked by unidentified individuals.
Rahmatullah Nabil, the former head of the National Directorate of Security of Afghanistan, said that in a drone attack in Giru district of Ghazni province, members of Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) were targeted.
The National Resistance Front (NRF) announced on Wednesday that its forces attacked a Taliban checkpoint in the Karte Naw area of Kabul.
Nikolai Patrushev, Russia’s Secretary of the National Security Council, said that the Ukrainian army and NATO are resorting to terrorist tactics due to their inability on the battlefield.
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, the President of Kazakhstan, emphasised on the importance of focusing on Afghanistan's development to prevent international terrorist groups from exploiting its territory.
Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban spokesperson, said that ISIS cannot pose a threat in Afghanistan. He dismissed concerns about the ISIS threat and called it "propaganda and exaggeration”.
Footage obtained by Afghanistan International shows that Dr Bashir, the former head of Taliban’s intelligence in Nangarhar province, accused the Taliban's purification commission of unjustly dismissing Taliban members from their positions.
Reports emerged that on Tuesday afternoon, unmanned drones hovered for several hours over the office of Mullah Hibatullah, the Taliban's leader in Kandahar, setting off alarms within the group.
A senior official from the Taliban's Ministry of Finance informed Afghanistan International that even after three and a half months, the budget for the new year has not yet been approved.
Sources in Paktia informed Afghanistan International that several doctors at the regional hospital have initiated a strike in protest against the behaviour of Mullah Khair Mohammad Mansoor, the Taliban's head of public health in the province.
Afghanistan International has learned that Taliban officials have seized the personal assets of several leaders and officials of the former Afghan government.
Taliban spokesperson, Zabihullah Mujahid, has lauded Russia's deliberation on excluding the group from its roster of terrorist organisations, labelling the gesture "a prudent and realistic action”.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan announced that the country hosted the 19th edition of the meeting of National Security Advisors of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) on Tuesday.