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Sources in Kabul told Afghanistan International that the Taliban has resumed house-to-house search operations in the northern areas of the capital.

Ali Maisam Nazary, the head of foreign relations of the National Resistance Front (NRF), reacted to the US officials’ meeting with Taliban representatives and called for the use of military pressure against the Taliban.

During a meeting with the Taliban delegation in Doha, the US special representatives emphasised on the "immediate and unconditional" release of US citizens who had been detained in Afghanistan.

Taliban members belonging to the Ministry of Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice confiscated flash drives and memory cards from passenger vehicles in Darayim district of Badakhshan province.

Iranian Vice-President Ali Salajegheh said that Afghanistan is not ruled by a state, and "a group [Taliban] currently has dominance over the country."

Khalid Hanafi, the Taliban’s Minister of Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, said that his ministry has tried to be “moderate”.

Mehdi Saadati, a member of the National Security and Foreign Policy Commission of the Iranian Parliament, announced that Iran monitors Afghan refugees.

The Tass news agency, quoting Kazakhstan’s foreign ministry, reported that the Kazakhstan-Afghanistan economic meeting will be held in Astana next week.

Afghanistan International plans to start broadcasts in Pashto language starting August 1, 2023. Officials of this media organisation said that they are committed to the principles and values of accurate, unbiased, and professional reporting.

The National Resistance Front (NRF) claims to have inflicted "heavy casualties" to the Taliban in Khost district of Baghlan province.

Hundreds of residents of western Kabul neglected severe restrictions of the Taliban on Shias and marched on the streets of the Dasht-e Barchi area in District 13 on the Day of Ashura.

Omer Daudzai, the former interior minister of Afghanistan, said that the Taliban follows the Islamic Republic’s footprints in torturing and imprisoning Afghan women.

Following the news and the reaction of human rights activists over the possible stoning of a man and a woman in Baghlan province by the Taliban, the local officials of the group denied this news.

The National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRF) announced that’s it’s forces had killed three Taliban members in Hesa Duwum district of Kapisa province.

Pictures received by Afghanistan International from Kabul show that Taliban members firing aerial shots to disperse the mourners on Ashura Day in Dasht-e-Barchi area of Kabul.

Zahra Nehbandani, head of the Department of Combating Infectious Diseases at Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, said that infectious diseases such as measles, rubella, and polio are still prevalent in Afghanistan.

Human rights group, Freedom Now, announced that the Taliban's restrictions on Muharram ceremonies and their violent dispersal of Shia mourners in Kabul is indicative of the group’s lack of tolerance towards Afghanistan’s diversity.

A UN report has stated that the Al-Qaeda maintains close association with the Afghan Taliban and even has infiltrated the group’s government institutions.

Mojtaba Zuljodi, the deputy of Iran's Department of Environment, warned that an environmental and human disaster will take place in Sistan region.

Vedant Patel, the US Department of State Deputy Spokesperson, said that the US Special Representative’s meeting with the Taliban in Doha doesn’t indicate any change in the policy of Washington.

During a meeting in Tehran, Taliban and Iranian officials discussed the establishment of a joint consular commission for Afghan refugees and issuing Afghan passports to newborn refugees in Iran.