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The Taliban flogged three women and four men in public in Ghor province after convicting them of extramarital relations and fleeing from home, the group’s Supreme Court said.

Iranian and Taliban officials met in Kabul this week to discuss border cooperation, economic ties and the situation of Afghan migrants in Iran, both sides said.

A passenger bus overturned on the Kabul–Kandahar highway late Tuesday, killing at least 25 people and injuring 27 others, Taliban officials said.

Switzerland has reopened an office in Kabul to manage humanitarian aid, becoming the first Western country to re-establish an on-the-ground presence in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, Swiss media reported.

Pakistan’s intelligence agency said it has foiled a planned suicide bombing in Islamabad by Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), involving an Afghan militant trained across the border.

Tehran’s police chief said 70,000 undocumented Afghan migrants have been expelled from the city as part of Iran’s nationwide deportation campaign.

Germany has resumed reviewing Afghan refugee cases and deployed staff to Pakistan to process applications, the daily Die Welt reported Monday.

The Taliban have approved a five-year National Development Strategy that outlines priorities in governance, security and economic growth, spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said Monday.

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid dismissed questions on girls’ education and the cancelled trip of the group’s foreign minister to India, describing both as “minor” issues.

The Taliban’s Ministry of Public Health says a new polio vaccination campaign will launch on Saturday, 30 August, in parts of eastern Afghanistan.

Pakistani security sources allege that Indian intelligence agencies are preparing a “false-flag” operation in Kashmir designed to implicate Pakistan and blame the Haqqani Network.

The Islamabad High Court has stopped the deportation of 18 Afghan nationals and directed Pakistani authorities to explain the cancellation of their residency cards.

Afghan migrants in Pakistan say their visa extension requests are being rejected without explanation, leaving many in limbo and unable to return home.

A planned gathering of Afghan anti-Taliban figures in Islamabad has been postponed following strong objections from the group, according to a report by the Pakistani daily The Nation.

The Taliban say they have confiscated more than 1,400 acres of land in Logar province, classifying it as state property.

US Senator Amy Klobuchar has called on Congress to pass bipartisan legislation that would grant permanent residency to Afghans who worked alongside American forces, many of them as interpreters.

The Taliban-run Bakhtar News Agency blurred the faces of female Dutch ministers in its coverage of cabinet resignations in the Netherlands, continuing its policy of censoring women’s images.

The Taliban say they have begun paying pensions to retired workers for the first time since returning to power in 2021.

The Afghanistan Freedom Front (AFF) said its fighters killed two Taliban members in an attack on the group’s base in Taleqan, the capital of Takhar province, on Saturday evening.

Afghanistan’s Taliban-controlled power company has signed four agreements with Uzbekistan to expand electricity supply to 11 provinces, including Kabul, officials said.

The Taliban have transferred the bodies of 50 Afghan fighters affiliated with Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) to a hospital in eastern Afghanistan after they were killed in clashes with the Pakistani military, security sources said.