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The first passenger train service between Mashhad, Iran, and Herat, Afghanistan, is expected to launch within the next two weeks, an Iranian official said.

The UN Security Council will hold a meeting on Afghanistan early next month, with the session scheduled for 23 June.

A security guard working at the World Health Organization’s (WHO) office in Jalalabad has been killed, reportedly after being severely tortured, informed sources told Afghanistan International on Monday.

Taliban forces have detained 24 residents of Panjshir province, some of whom were recently deported from Iran, for reasons that remain unclear, local sources said on Monday.

The Taliban has installed surveillance cameras in several areas of Panjshir province, the Ministry of Interior announced on Monday, claiming the move is intended to improve security and public safety.

A Taliban team deployed to destroy opium poppy fields in Badakhshan’s Jurm district has withdrawn amid growing internal tensions and local unrest, sources told Afghanistan International on Sunday.

A senior Taliban official has claimed that Afghan women are the primary victims of the country’s worsening climate crisis, even as the group’s own restrictions on women continue to draw global condemnation.

Iranian authorities executed 163 people, including seven Afghan nationals, in May, according to a report released Sunday by Hengaw, a human rights organisation.

Nearly 4 million children in Afghanistan are currently out of school, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported on Sunday.

More than 600,000 Afghan migrants have returned from Iran and Pakistan so far this year, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

Russia has formally accepted the Taliban’s appointed ambassador to Moscow, the Taliban’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Sunday, marking another step in deepening ties between the two sides.

Taliban authorities have publicly flogged 11 people, including a woman, in separate incidents across Kabul, Samangan and Khost provinces, the group’s Supreme Court announced on Sunday.

US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Saturday that America’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq lacked clear and defined objectives, leading to years of costly involvement.

Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi has welcomed Pakistan’s decision to restore full diplomatic relations with Taliban, calling it a “very positive development” for ties between the two neighbours.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has once again warned of the potential return of NATO forces to Afghanistan.

Yousuf Wafa, the Taliban’s governor of Balkh province, has led a high-level delegation of northern governors to central Ghor province to assess the region’s security situation.

The Taliban inaugurated two major renewable energy projects in Herat province on Saturday: a 43.2-megawatt wind power plant and a 5-megawatt solar energy facility.

The cabinet of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has passed a resolution denouncing the federal government’s policy towards Afghanistan as “ineffective”. The cabinet members called for an immediate review of these policies.

On 21 May 2016, three days after the killing of Akhtar Mohammad Mansour, the former leader of the Taliban, discussions began within the group regarding the selection of a new leader.

On Saturday, the Taliban's Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation said that Tajikistan deported 49 Afghan migrants on Wednesday and Thursday. The group re-entered Afghanistan via the Sher Khan border crossing in Kunduz province.

The Taliban’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has welcomed Pakistan’s decision to elevate its diplomatic mission in Kabul from a chargé d’affaires to a full ambassador. The group described Pakistan’s move as a positive step towards strengthening bilateral relations.