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Majid Shoja, Khorasan Razavi Border Guard Commander, announced that 17,926 Afghan refugees have been deported by the Taibad Border Regiment to Afghanistan.

Tasnim News Agency, which is affiliated to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, reported that more than 50 percent of seminary students and some of the teachers of Zahedan Makki Mosque are foreigners and Afghans.

Yaqoob Ali Nazari, governor of Iran's Khorasan Razavi, during the inauguration ceremony of the Khaf-Herat railway line, said that the annual capacity of this railway line is to carry six million tonnes of cargo between Afghanistan and Iran.

The Taliban’s Supreme Court announced that the group has flogged four people, including a woman, on charges of "debauchery” in the Paghman district of Kabul province.

The Taliban's Ministry of Interior (MoI) has warned that ISIS plans to attack officials of the group who have returned from the Hajj pilgrimage, according to a letter obtained by Afghanistan International.

National Resistance Front (NRF) announced that during a guerilla attack on a Taliban outpost in Kapisa province, one Taliban fighter has been killed and two others have been injured.

Sirajuddin Haqqani, Taliban’s Minister of Interior, has said that for a long time, there have been attempts that religious seminaries confront with universities in Afghanistan.

The Taliban's Food and Drug Authority announced that a Chinese company will invest ten million dollars in the medicine sector in Afghanistan.

Social media users said that senior members of a group that has killed several journalists in Afghanistan over the past two decades are currently feeling good about the freedom of speech on Twitter.

The Taliban announced that the group has ordered a ban on all activities of Sweden in Afghanistan. The group said that the ban will continue until the government of Sweden offers an apology to Muslims in relation to the Quran burning incident which took place in Stockholm.

Asif Durrani, Pakistan's special envoy for Afghanistan, confirmed that based on UN resolutions, the United States has been using Pakistan's airspace to attack targets inside Afghanistan.

The World Food Programme (WFP) in Afghanistan announced that due to lack of funding, the organisation has been forced to cut off eight million people from receiving assistance in 2023.

The Taliban has removed the teacher training centers from the structure of the Ministry of Education of Afghanistan, according to documents obtained by Afghanistan International.

Suhail Shaheen, head of the Taliban’s political office in Doha, on Sunday, said that he had a constructive meeting with Robert Dickson, the British Charge d'Affairs for Afghanistan.

Afghanistan’s Permanent Delegation in Geneva announced that Taliban continues systematic and forced displacement of people in the country. The Afghan mission warned that Taliban’s forced displacements increase the risk of human trafficking.

The Taliban-controlled Bakhtar News Agency reported that extraction from the first Qashqari oil well in Sar-e-Pul province has been initiated on a trial basis.

The Taliban’s Ministry of Refugees announced the release of 26 Afghan prisoners from a prison in Quetta city of Pakistan.

The Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) reported that Mohammad Ramez Rashidi and Naeem Hashem Ghotali, accused of the 2022 attack on the shrine of Shah Cheragh in Shiraz, have been executed.

In a stern warning to the Biden administration, chairman of the House Foreign Relations Committee, Michael Mccaul said that he will do everything in his power to oppose recognition of the Taliban’s government in Afghanistan.

Former Afghan Vice-President Amrullah Saleh has claimed that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has gifted two Russian-made Mi-17 helicopters to the Taliban.

On Thursday, local sources said that Haji Laal, a former local police commander in Chahar Bolak district of Balkh province had been killed by unknown armed men in Mazar-e-Sharif city.