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The National Resistance Front (NRF) announced that one Taliban fighter had been killed and two other members of the group had been wounded in the Nahrin district of Baghlan province.

Radio Afghanistan International has been nominated for the Social Impact category awards of the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) in the Netherlands.

As tensions have escalated between the Taliban and Pakistan, Asif Durrani, Pakistan’s special envoy for Afghanistan will visit Kabul on Wednesday.

After around two months of absence from office, the Taliban’s Prime Minister Mullah Hasan Akhund returned to office in Kabul.

The Taliban's Ministry of Refugees announced that more than 1,000 Afghan refugees returned to Afghanistan from Pakistan in the past four days.

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) in a report on the human rights situation in Afghanistan in May and June stated that at least 15 people were killed and 49 wounded as a result of IED attacks, the vast majority of them civilians.

Hossein Amir Abdollahian, Iran’s foreign minister, urged the international community to focus on the movement of the terror groups in Afghanistan and said that if attention is not paid to the issue, the world and the region will face negative consequences impacts of it.

Khawaja Muhammad Asif, Pakistan’s defence minister, said that Pakistan will "uproot" the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) without the cooperation of the Afghan Taliban.

Abolfazl Chamandi, the deputy governor of Khorasan Razavi province, expressed hope that bilateral cooperation with the Taliban on projects such as the Khaf-Herat railway line will also impact the water rights issue from Helmand River.

Mohammad Pour Khosh Saadat, the governor of Bandar-e Anzali in Gilan Province, announced that employing illegal immigrants in this city has been prohibited.

Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) rejected the recent statements of Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff about the group’s hideouts in Afghanistan.

Pakistan’s defence minister Khawaja Mohammad Asif criticised the Taliban for "neglecting their duties as a neighbouring and brotherly country”.

The National Resistance Front (NRF) claimed that the front’s forces attacked a Taliban outpost in Sharkarda district of Kabul and inflicted "heavy casualties" on the group.

Hirokazu Matsuno, the Chief Cabinet Secretary of Japan, announced that this year, 114 Afghans have been granted asylum in the country.

Mumtaz Zahra Baloch, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan, said that the Taliban has a responsibility of ensuring that Afghanistan’s soil is not used for terrorism against Pakistan.

After the Taliban imposed new restrictions on the Muharram ceremony of Shia community members, Mawlawi Abdul Kabir, the Taliban’s acting Prime Minister met with several Shia clerics.

Javanmard Ghassab, the adviser to the Iranian envoy for Afghanistan, said that in the first four months of the year, Afghans have invested about 150 million dollars in Iran.

Taliban have ordered the Shia community members to refrain from celebrating the month of Muharram and Ashura ceremony outside mosques and religious centers.

Iranian reformist newspaper, “Jomhouri Eslami”, on its front page wrote that the south of Tehran is under the "occupation of Afghans" and that this is a "full-fledged security" issue.

Iranian media outlets reported that the country’s police raided the eastern areas of Hormozgan province on Wednesday to "clean up the areas contaminated by fuel smuggling".

Nai, Supporting Open Media in Afghanistan, in a statement, announced that the local radio station, Nehad, has stopped its broadcast operations in northern Afghanistan.