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Senior Taliban officials visited Balkh province on Wednesday to inaugurate the first phase of the Qosh Tepa Canal.

Doctors Without Borders in Afghanistan quoting Taliban officials, reported that 2,445 people died in the aftermath of Saturday’s earthquake in Herat province.

On Tuesday, the United Kingdom’s Foreign Office in a statement announced that it does not support anyone seeking political change through violence in Afghanistan.

Officials of the regional hospital in Herat confirmed that one person had been killed and 153 injured were transferred to this hospital and other health centres because of the earthquake in the province on Wednesday.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) announced that the earthquake on Saturday left 1,294 people dead and injured 1,688 others in the Zindajan district of Herat province alone.

Alaa AbouZeid, Emergency Team Lead of the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Afghanistan, on Monday said that most of the victims of Saturday's earthquake in western Afghanistan are women and children.

On Tuesday, the United Kingdom’s Foreign Office announced the release of four British citizens from the custody of the Taliban.

The Taliban's State Ministry for Disaster Management announced that 4,000 people were killed and injured in Herat province due to the earthquake on Saturday.

The Taliban’s Ministry of Defence announced that the group has buried the bodies of more than 300 victims of the Herat earthquake in Zindajan district of Herat province.

An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.9 on the Richter scale, once again jolted western Afghanistan on Monday morning.

Ali Bahadori Jahromi, the spokesperson of the Iranian government, said that the process of organising foreign citizens has begun in different regions of Iran, with a focus on identifying and deporting illegal citizens.

Over 273 days after the detention of Mortaza Behboudi, an Afghan-French journalist, his wife, Aleksandra Mostovaja, has appealed to the international community, urging them not to forget him.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) called on all countries to stop the forceful expulsion of Afghans.

Media reports indicated that at least 14 people had been killed and 78 others had been injured after an earthquake struck Herat province of Afghanistan.

Hossein Salimi, Iran’s head of the Foreign Investment Association, stated that most of the foreign investment in the country has been made by Afghans.

Kremlin in a statement said that Russian and Uzbek presidents have emphasised on their commitment towards efforts aimed at promoting peace and stability in Afghanistan.

Association for Coordination of Diplomats of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan asked the Netherlands to take necessary measures to suspend the activities of the "Taliban representative" at the Afghan embassy in The Hague.

Dozens of Iranian citizens protested against the presence of Afghan immigrants on the streets of Eqbaliyeh City in Qazvin province. They chanted that Afghans must leave Iran.

Jalil Abbas Jilani, the foreign minister of the interim government of Pakistan, defended his country’s decision to deport all illegal immigrants, including 1.73 million Afghans, from the country.

Ahmad Massoud, leader of the National Resistance Front (NRF), called for the recognition of the "gender apartheid and the genocide of the Hazaras" in Afghanistan.

Ahmad Vahidi, Iran’s Minister of Interior, called addressing the issue of Afghan immigrants in Iran an undeniable necessity.