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The Taliban have flogged a man and a woman in northern Afghanistan after convicting them of having extramarital relations, the group’s Supreme Court said.

An Iranian police official has said deportations of undocumented Afghan migrants are continuing at pace, with 1,500 identified in Babol county alone and handed over for expulsion.

Turkiye’s ambassador to Kabul and a senior UN official have visited the remote Wakhan Corridor in Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province, highlighting development projects and the challenges faced by local communities.

Taliban officials say Pakistan has stepped up the deportation of Afghan migrants, with hundreds of families being forced to return daily.

Iran has accused the Taliban of failing to honour a key water treaty and vowed to intensify pressure on the group to secure its share of the Helmand River.

The Taliban have flogged a man and a woman in public in central Afghanistan after convicting them of “moral corruption,” the group’s Supreme Court said.

A planned gathering of Taliban opponents in Pakistan has been postponed after participants faced difficulties obtaining visas, two sources told Afghanistan International.

Four Taliban diplomats have travelled to Switzerland to help identify Afghan nationals convicted of crimes, in a move Swiss officials described as sensitive but necessary.

The Taliban are transferring the bodies of 50 Afghan fighters linked to Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) back into Afghanistan after they were killed in clashes with the Pakistani military, sources told Afghanistan International.

The Taliban administration has not been invited to the upcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in China, despite earlier claims by Taliban officials that they would take part.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met with his Indian counterpart, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, in Moscow on Thursday to discuss regional issues, including the situation in Afghanistan.

China’s foreign minister said Beijing is prepared to strengthen trust with Afghanistan and Pakistan while countering foreign interference in the region.

The Taliban’s Ministry of Commerce and Industry has announced a fixed timetable for exports through the Torkham border crossing, allocating specific hours for agricultural and non-agricultural goods.

The Taliban have arrested 16 young men in Kandahar for raising Afghanistan’s republic era black, red and green national flag during a private Independence Day gathering, local sources said.

The United States has appointed Don Brown as the new acting head of its mission for Afghanistan, replacing Karen Decker, who has retired from the State Department.

The Taliban have dismissed concerns raised by the UN Security Council over the presence of terrorist groups in Afghanistan, insisting no such organisations are operating in the country.

Pakistan has warned that militant groups based in Afghanistan pose a major threat to its national security and to regional stability, citing Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) as the most immediate danger.

It has been four years since the fall of the republic in Afghanistan. During this period, a diverse array of political movements, military fronts, and civil resistance groups have emerged—both within the country and beyond its borders.

Six members of a former Afghan soldier’s family were killed in an attack in eastern Nangarhar province, local sources said.

The UN Security Council has warned that the Khorasan branch of the Islamic State group, known as ISIS-K, continues to pose a major threat to Afghanistan and regional stability, with growing reach into Europe and Central Asia.

The UK Ministry of Defence has confirmed that 49 separate data breaches over the past four years exposed personal details of Afghan nationals who had applied for relocation to Britain after working with UK forces.