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The Taliban Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced that a delegation represented the group at the 15th session of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Gambia.

Sources within the Taliban reported that Mullah Akhtar, the police commander for the group in central Baghlan, has clashed with Mullah Aziz, a Tajik Taliban commander, in the Burka district of Baghlan.

Asghar Bolukian, an official at Iran's National Migration Organization, has stated that Iran can no longer sustain the influx of Afghan migrants.

The National Resistance Front (NRF) reported a successful assault on a Taliban checkpoint in the Shindand district of Herat province on Saturday evening, resulting in the deaths of three Taliban members.

Zakia Wardak, the Afghan Consul General in Mumbai, resigned shortly after a report surfaced linking her to gold smuggling.

Residents of Badakhshan have informed Afghanistan International that the people of Argo district initiated large-scale protests against the Taliban on Saturday.

The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) of India has reported the discovery of more than 25 kilogrammes of gold, valued at over USD 2.2 million, in possession of Zakia Wardak, Afghanistan's Consul General in Mumbai, at the city's airport.

Fereshta Abbasi, a Human Rights Watch (HRW) researcher, wrote in an article that with the Taliban's takeover of power, ISIS Khorasan has also grown and targeted mosques and schools in predominantly Hazara and Shia areas.

The Afghanistan Freedom Front (AFF), on World Press Freedom Day, stated that the Taliban have forced journalists, especially female journalists, to leave their jobs using threats, imprisonment, and coercion.

Anti-Taliban protests in the Darayim district of Badakhshan province entered its second day on Saturday.

The Afghanistan Green Trend (AGT), led by Amrullah Saleh, has reported that hostility between the Kandahari Taliban and the forces of Fasihuddin Fitrat, the group's Chief of Army Staff, in Badakhshan, is growing.

Residents of Darayim District, Badakhshan, staged widespread protests against the Taliban on Friday.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has released its latest ranking on global media freedom and placed Afghanistan among the most dangerous countries for journalists.

The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) said that since the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan, Washington has provided USD 17.19 billion in aid to the country.

Mohammad Reza Kazemi, Iran’s Deputy Head of the Drug Control Headquarters, said that there is still no documented evidence of a reduction in drug production in Afghanistan.

The National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRF) announced that its forces killed one Taliban member and injured two others in an attack on a Taliban checkpoint in the 12th police district of Kabul city.

UNAMA reported that despite the declaration of a general amnesty, the Taliban continued to detain, torture, and kill former government employees and military personnel.

The National Resistance Front (NRF) has claimed that the Taliban is exploiting the anti-ISIS Khorasan narrative to gain benefits from regional countries.

Sources from Pul-e-Charkhi prison have informed Afghanistan International that the Taliban officials have physically assaulted and tortured dozens of political prisoners who were on a hunger strike, demanding a review of their cases.

Mullah Yaqoob, the Taliban's Defence Minister, expressed appreciation on the reopening of Azerbaijan's embassy in Afghanistan during a meeting with Ilham Mammadov, Azerbaijan's Ambassador to Kabul.

The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) stated that religious minorities in Afghanistan face threats from terrorist groups such as ISIS, as well as harassment and persecution from the Taliban.