The Pakistani military rejected Amnesty International’s report on an air strike on a treatment centre in Kabul that killed civilians, accusing the Taliban of using hospitals and medical facilities as blind spots for terrorist activity.
Pakistan’s foreign minister Ishaq Dar urged the Afghan Taliban to ensure Afghanistan is not used by terrorist groups to target neighbouring countries, saying fulfilment of this commitment could help expand trade.
Germany’s Federal Ministry of the Interior has told Afghanistan International that Afghan passports extended on or after 1 August 2026 will no longer be recognised as valid travel documents in Germany.
The 12th security and border meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation was held in Pakistan with a delegation from the Collective Security Treaty Organisation in attendance.
The Taliban’s Interior Ministry says its police command in Takhar seized about 107 kilograms of opium and arrested two people in connection with trafficking the drugs.
Sources in Kabul told Afghanistan International on Wednesday that Taliban agents raided the office of the Women and Children Legal Research Foundation (WCLRF) earlier this week and detained six staff members.
The International Organization for Migration says flash floods in Nuristan province have caused widespread damage to homes and critical infrastructure, leaving some families without adequate shelter, safe drinking water or food.
Qari Motiur Rahman served as district governor of Shuhada in Badakhshan for just seven days. Before entering his second week in office, the Taliban removed him and appointed a new district governor.
Qayum Malang, commander of the Sepah-e Mihan Front, released his first audio message five days after the attack on Yaftal district in Badakhshan, saying he and his fighters were safe.
Local sources in Badakhshan told Afghanistan International that the Taliban has ordered gunmen loyal to dissident local commander Juma Khan Fateh in Shekay and Nusay districts to surrender their weapons as soon as possible.
Sources told Afghanistan International that former president Hamid Karzai is barred by the Taliban from travelling even to his native Kandahar and faces tight restrictions on his movements and meetings.
The UN secretary-general’s spokesman Stéphane Dujarric says more than 40 people have died in recent floods in Nuristan, while others remain missing. Search-and-rescue operations are continuing.
Germany’s federal interior minister, Alexander Dobrindt, has said the government will continue deporting convicted asylum seekers to Afghanistan following a deadly knife attack in Trier.
A number of mine workers in Badakhshan protested on Tuesday over the Taliban’s continued closure of mining sites, saying Taliban forces threatened and beat some workers and ignored their demands.
Sources told Afghanistan International that the Taliban has compiled lists of former security personnel in Kandahar, Helmand and Uruzgan and begun surveilling them, including by phone to verify where they live.
The Taliban’s Interior Ministry says its forces seized more than 700 kilograms of opium in Badakhshan province and arrested two people in connection with trafficking the drugs.
The Taliban’s Justice Ministry said on Tuesday, 21 July, that more than 7,400 acres of land in Yusuf Khel district of Paktika province had been officially classified as state-owned property.
A girl due to enter seventh grade in 2022 is now about 17 or 18. Had things continued normally, she would have finished school and be preparing for the university entrance exam.
Sources in Kandahar told Afghanistan International that the Taliban leader’s office rejected a request by representatives of the World Bank, Asian Development Bank and other global organisations to meet Hibatullah Akhundzada.
The Taliban’s disaster management authority says flash floods in Parun, the capital of Nuristan province, have killed at least 20 people, injured 80 and left about 100 missing.
A day after unidentified attackers fired rockets at a Taliban border battalion in Badakhshan’s Khwahan district, a Taliban Defence Ministry official met Tajikistan’s ambassador in Kabul to discuss border issues.