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Informed sources have confirmed that Taliban’s intelligence agency has detained several employees of the former government’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The Taliban's Foreign Minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, has accused three neighbouring countries of supporting ISIS attacks in Afghanistan and the surrounding region.

During a recent meeting with Iran's Special Envoy, Hassan Kazemi Qomi, Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban's Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs, confirmed that water from the Helmand River has reached Iran's Sistan and Baluchestan Province.

Amnesty International's recent report has highlighted the dire human rights situation in Afghanistan.

Asif Durrani, Pakistan's Special Representative for Afghanistan, has said that the notion that security would be established in the region after NATO's withdrawal from Afghanistan, was false.

The Afghanistan Freedom Front (AFF), an anti-Taliban political and military faction, has demanded international humanitarian intervention in Afghanistan and urged the international community to put an end to the Taliban rule through "humanitarian intervention”.

The National Resistance Front (NRF) announced on Wednesday that one Taliban member had been killed and two others were wounded in an attack by its forces on a Taliban checkpoint in Kabul.

After Iran President’s visit to Pakistan, in a joint statement with Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif both leaders asserted that terrorist organisations operating from Afghanistan are a significant threat to regional and global security.

The Taliban’s Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation announced that 1,001 Afghan refugees were "forcibly" expelled from Pakistan.

The US State Department has said that it, along with its allies and partners, is exerting pressure on the Taliban to abolish discriminatory practices against Afghan women and girls.

Raffaella Iodice, Chargé d’Affaires of the EU delegation to Afghanistan, held discussions with members from the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Tuesday regarding the situation in Afghanistan, particularly women's education.

The Taliban, citing Zamir Kabulov, Russia's special envoy for Afghanistan, claimed that Moscow supports granting Afghanistan's seat at the United Nations to a Taliban representative.

Afghanistan’s Green Trend (AGT), led by Amrullah Saleh, former Afghan Vice-President, has announced that the Taliban’s head of criminals investigations department of Qarghayi district in Laghman province has been killed.

The Taliban's Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation has announced that in the past two days, 3,429 migrants from Iran and Pakistan have been repatriated, both voluntarily and involuntarily.

The Taliban’s Supreme Court has announced that it has sentenced two individuals to 30 lashes in public for theft in Kapisa province.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Taliban reported that the Chinese Ambassador, during a meeting with Amir Khan Muttaqi, the group’s foreign minister, discussed bilateral cooperation regarding the opening of the Wakhan Port.

The US State Department has said in its annual report on human rights that despite declaring a "general amnesty," the Taliban has continued to detain and kill individuals affiliated with the previous Afghan government.

Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the leader of Hezb-e-Islami, has stated that with the Taliban assuming power in Afghanistan, the foundation for an "independent and robust government" in the country has been established.

Zhao Xing, the Chinese Ambassador in Kabul, has assured the Taliban’s Ministry of Information and Culture that the Aynak copper project will be carried out without damaging cultural heritage.

The National Resistance Front (NRF) announced on Monday that it had attacked a Taliban security outpost in Kabul city.

Local sources informed Afghanistan International that Abdul Ghafar Ishaqzai, an activist, along with his two sons, have been apprehended by Taliban’s intelligence agents in Helmand province for political activities.