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Local sources reported an explosion inside a mosque in the second district of Pol-e Khomri city in Baghlan Province. According to sources, the explosion occurred at the Imam Zaman Mosque during Friday prayers.

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) said that the organisation has allocated $12 million for immediate humanitarian assistance to help the earthquake victims in western Afghanistan.

Manzoor Pashteen, the leader of Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM), announced that the Pakistani authorities prevented his group's campaign to collect aid for the Herat earthquake victims.

The Chinese government announced on Thursday that it will provide more than four million dollars-worth of humanitarian support to Afghanistan in order to help the victims of the recent earthquakes.

Sources said that Pakistani security forces have not been allowing Afghan travellers who do not have passports and visas to cross the Chaman border over the last three days.

Afghanistan’s consulate in Dubai, controlled by the Taliban, announced that the Fly Dubai airline will resume its flights to Afghanistan from November 15.

Mohammad Reza Rezaei, Governor of Taybad district of Iran, on Thursday announced sending a shipment of 40 tonnes of flour to the earthquake affected areas of Herat province.

The Taliban’s Ministry of Mines and Petroleum signed a 30-year contract with three Qatari companies for the cement project in Jabal Siraj district of Parwan province.

On the International Day of the Girl Child, Thomas West, the US Special Representative for Afghanistan, said that Afghan girls are facing the most extraordinary repression in the country.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Tajikistan President Emomali Rahmon will meet in the Bishkek city of Kyrgyzstan on Friday.

Senior Taliban officials visited Balkh province on Wednesday to inaugurate the first phase of the Qosh Tepa Canal.

Doctors Without Borders in Afghanistan quoting Taliban officials, reported that 2,445 people died in the aftermath of Saturday’s earthquake in Herat province.

On Tuesday, the United Kingdom’s Foreign Office in a statement announced that it does not support anyone seeking political change through violence in Afghanistan.

Officials of the regional hospital in Herat confirmed that one person had been killed and 153 injured were transferred to this hospital and other health centres because of the earthquake in the province on Wednesday.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) announced that the earthquake on Saturday left 1,294 people dead and injured 1,688 others in the Zindajan district of Herat province alone.

Alaa AbouZeid, Emergency Team Lead of the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Afghanistan, on Monday said that most of the victims of Saturday's earthquake in western Afghanistan are women and children.

On Tuesday, the United Kingdom’s Foreign Office announced the release of four British citizens from the custody of the Taliban.

The Taliban's State Ministry for Disaster Management announced that 4,000 people were killed and injured in Herat province due to the earthquake on Saturday.

The Taliban’s Ministry of Defence announced that the group has buried the bodies of more than 300 victims of the Herat earthquake in Zindajan district of Herat province.

An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.9 on the Richter scale, once again jolted western Afghanistan on Monday morning.

Ali Bahadori Jahromi, the spokesperson of the Iranian government, said that the process of organising foreign citizens has begun in different regions of Iran, with a focus on identifying and deporting illegal citizens.