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Nearly 19 million people in Afghanistan face severe food insecurity and six million people are on the brink of famine, the World Food Programme (WFP) announced on Tuesday.

At least five passengers died on Monday evening as the result of floods in Ghazni province, the Director of Information and Culture of the Taliban in the province announced. The dead included two women and three children.

At least 25 Taliban members have been killed and 18 others were wounded while 40 of them have been captured in an operation in Panjshir province, announced the National Resistance Front (NRF).

At least four people have been injured in an explosion in district three of Kabul on Monday, local sources said. The explosion took place in front of the main gate of Bayat Media Center on Darul Aman road.

More than 1,500 civilians have been killed in Afghanistan since August 15, 2021, as per Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC). According to AIHRC, the Taliban have systemically violated human rights in Afghanistan.

Several Afghan Twitter users have launched a campaign with the hashtag #FreeAfghanistan on the first anniversary of the Taliban's takeover of Kabul on Monday. The organisers of the campaign emphasised that last year on August 15, Pakistani agents occupied Afghanistan.

A group of Afghan women blamed the United States and the international community for what they called “double standards” against terrorism. The women referred to Taliban and al-Qaeda and stressed that US installed one “ruler in Kabul” and “targeted” the latter with airstrikes.

Abdul Nafee Takur, spokesperson for Taliban's Ministry of Interior, told Afghanistan International that "only two people had been slightly injured" in the explosion in western Kabul. Other Taliban officials, however, confirmed that four people had been injured in the explosion.

Ahmad Massoud, leader of the National Resistance Front, in an interview with the Atlantic Council, said that there is no option, but to fight against the Taliban.

A group of Afghan women protesters marched on the streets in Kabul on Saturday and sought their rights for "food, work, and freedom". The Taliban, however, fired aerial shots and disrupted the demonstration.

Over 113,500 babies have been delivered across the country since January in 33 large hospitals supported by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), as per Christine Cipolla, ICRC's regional director for Asia and the Pacific.

The country has seen the closure of 39.59% of its media outlets and unemployment of nearly 59.86% of its journalists ever since the Taliban took over Afghanistan on August 15, 2021, as per a Reporters Without Borders (RSF) survey.

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.