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Majid Shuja, the border guard commander of Khorasan Razavi province, on Sunday, announced that over the past two weeks, 18,943 Afghan refugees have been deported from Iran.

Eskandar Momeni, the Secretary General of Drugs Control Headquarters in Iran, said that the production and trafficking of drugs in Afghanistan has increased nearly 50 times in two decades.

The Women’s Movement for Peace and Freedom has welcomed the recent report of the United Nations Security Council and said that Taliban has turned Afghanistan into a hub for international terrorism.

A video clip which has been circulating on social media depicts a boat stranded in Greek waters while ferrying dozens of refugees. The person who recorded the video clip said that around 100, most of whom are children, are asylum seekers and have been stuck in the boat.

Farshid Shokrkhodaie the head of sustainable development commission of the Iranian Chamber of Commerce, said that the Taliban has not allowed Iranian experts to visit the Kajaki Dam. Shokrkhodaei stressed that sticking only to diplomacy with the Taliban will never be effective.

The UN Security Council in a new report said that the Taliban’s interior minister Sirajuddin Haqqani has been trying to build greater support among the Taliban for Mullah Yaqoob to replace Hibatullah Akhundzada as the group’s leader.

Ali Maisam Nazary, Head of Foreign Relations of the National Resistance Front (NRF), on Thursday, asked the international community for political and moral support to form a democratic alternative in Afghanistan.

The National Resistance Front (NRF) called the recent killing of senior Taliban officials in Badakhshan as part of the intra-group violence, and the Taliban’s efforts to provide a permanent base to regional terrorist groups.

Marat Imankulov, Secretary of the Security Council of Kyrgyzstan, addressed a meeting of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) in Minsk and discussed the stability of Afghanistan and the region.

Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday said that India has sent a technical team to its embassy in Kabul to monitor the situation in Afghanistan and focus on helping Afghans.

The Taliban-controlled Bakhtar News Agency, on Thursday, reported that the third regiment border forces in Nimroz conducted military training with heavy weapons.

The United Nations Spokesperson, Stephane Dujarric, said on Thursday that the UN is "extremely concerned" about the reports of a ban on international organisations in the education sector in Afghanistan.

Despite the Taliban’s previous claims of less water in the Kamal Khan and Kajaki dams, the Taliban-controlled Bakhtar News Agency reported an increase in the water levels of the Kajaki dam.

A day after Afghanistan International’s report about the Taliban’s recent order to ban the operation of organisations active in the education sector, the UN Children’s Agency expressed concerns about the decision.

In a new report, Amnesty International has stated that the Taliban have committed war crimes of collective punishment against civilians in Afghanistan’s Panjshir province.

The Taliban-controlled Afghanistan embassy in Islamabad announced that nearly 250 Afghan refugees have been arrested in Islamabad, Rawalpindi, and its surroundings. The embassy said that refugees who had legal documents had also been arrested.

Moezuddin Ahmadi, the director of information and culture of Taliban in Badakhshan, confirmed to Afghanistan International that Safiullah Samim, the former police chief of the group in Baghlan, has been killed in an explosion at the Nabawi mosque in Faizabad city.

Western diplomats and United Nations have started another round of efforts to engage with Afghanistan. In line with these efforts, Thomas West, the US special envoy for Afghanistan, is in London to discuss Afghanistan with British officials.

Five months after the detention of Mortaza Behboudi, an Afghan-French journalist by the Taliban, his wife Aleksandra Mostovaja has asked social media users to write virtual postal cards on Twitter and Facebook and ask the Taliban to release him.

Asif Durrani, Pakistan's special envoy for Afghanistan, claimed that various countries including the United States, have "direct relations" with the Taliban in Kabul and Doha.

Suhail Shaheen, head of Taliban’s political office in Qatar, said that the group has a difference of opinion with the world regarding the right to education and work of Afghan girls and women.