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The Taliban announced that at least three people have lost their lives and four others are missing due to flash floods in seven provinces of Afghanistan.

The Taliban Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE) announced that a new directorate has been established to review the academic syllabus taught at universities in Afghanistan.

The Taliban started house-to-house search operations in District 2 of Kabul city on Friday morning. Residents said that the inspection started when most of the people had been sleeping.

Sources in Panjshir told Afghanistan International that Taliban have threatened fathers of three families in Karamaan village to marry off their daughters. Taliban told the families that they could either agree of their own will or they will be forced to marry their daughters.

The Taliban on Thursday confirmed that Mawlawi Rahimullah Haqqani, a high-profile supporter of the group, had been killed in Kabul. Bilal Karimi, a deputy spokesperson for the Taliban, said that Haqqani was killed through the "cowardly attack of the enemy".

The Human Rights Watch in a new report released on Thursday announced that Taliban leaders should recognize the catastrophe they have created over the past year and reverse course on rights.

Hazara community is experiencing increasing and widespread attacks since the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan in August 2021, the Holocaust Memorial Museum said.

Al Hadath Arabic TV reported that "Taliban's armed men attacked Al Hadath's team during a live broadcast" in Afghanistan. The TV station confirmed that the Taliban threatened Christian Baysari, a reporter with the channel, with whips and guns to stop reporting in Kabul.

Yue Xiaoyong, the Chinese envoy for Afghanistan affairs, met with the Taliban's Foreign and Defense Ministers, in Kabul. Taliban's Foreign and Defense Ministries in separate statements confirmed that bilateral cooperation was discussed during the meeting with Xiaoyong.

In a gunbattle between Taliban and Iranian forces in the Taybad border region of Iran and Afghanistan, an Iranian soldier has been killed, Borna, Iran's state news agency reported. According to Borna, the Taliban forces attacked a patrol vehicle of the Iranian border forces.

Taliban announced that they had to receive intelligence information about the presence of people like al-Zawahiri in Afghanistan. Zabihullah Mujahid, Taliban spokesman, said that not knowing about Zawhiri's whereabouts in Kabul shows the group’s “weakness and neglect of duty".

Taliban officials have ordered female Ariana airlines flight attendants to stay at home, sources told Afghanistan International (AI). The state-run Ariana airlines’ flight attendants have stopped working since March 2022, and the airlines operate without female crew now.

Ali Maisam Nazary, the head of foreign relations of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRF), wrote on his Twitter handle that the Taliban massacred thousands of Hazara and Shia civilians on this day because of their ethnic and religious affiliations.

Sirajuddin Haqqani, Taliban's Interior Minister, has ordered relevant government organisations to treat the injured and differently-abled Taliban fighters outside Afghanistan, if they can’t be treated inside the country.

Social media has been flooded with images showing Afghan school textbooks being used in burger shops across Afghanistan to wrap food ingredients. A photo published on social media shows a multitude of Afghan school textbooks stored in the corner of a burger store.

Iran urged the Taliban to clarify various aspects of the incident wherein its diplomats had been killed in 1998 in Afghanistan. On the 24th anniversary of the killing of Iranian diplomats in Mazar-e-Sharif, Iranian Foreign Ministry said that this is a decisive demand of Iran.

Residents in the capital city of Kabul on Monday reported a severe disruption in the telecommunication services in the Shia-dominated western parts of the city. The disruption comes after three days of back-to-back explosions in Kabul.

Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the leader of Hizb-e-Islami Afghanistan, on Friday said that no enemy of Washington in Afghanistan is safe from US strikes. He stressed that the US drone strike in the Shirpur area of Kabul is proof enough for them.

Following the murder of a tribal elder in Nangarhar province, residents in a protest briefly blocked the Jalalabad-Torkham highway. According to local sources, Jamil Khan, a tribal elder, was taken out of his house and killed on Friday in Hazarnaw area of Momand district.

Yue Xiaoyong, China's Special Envoy for Afghanistan, visited New Delhi to discuss Afghan affairs with Indian officials. Xiaoyong said that he spoke about peace and stability in Afghanistan during a meeting with JP Singh, Joint Secretary of India’s Ministry of External Affairs.

The Taliban released a video on Twitter on Saturday claiming that the group's acting Interior Minister, Sirajuddin Haqqani, had traveled to Helmand province. In the video, Haqqani can be seen meeting his aides in a desert. His exact location has not been stated in the video.