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Nearly 5 million mothers and children in Afghanistan are suffering from malnutrition as the country’s hunger crisis deepens, the World Food Programme said Friday.

The Taliban on Friday freed a British couple who had been held in Afghanistan for seven months, according to officials and family members.

China on Friday urged respect for Afghanistan’s sovereignty after US President Donald Trump suggested Washington was seeking to regain control of Bagram Air Base.

Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif on Thursday accused the Taliban of backing militants targeting Islamabad and declared Afghanistan a “hostile country.”

President Donald Trump has been pressing US security officials for months to find a way to retake Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, CNN reported Thursday, citing three sources familiar with the matter.

The United States will revoke Iran’s Chabahar Port sanctions exemption on Sept. 29, a move that could cut off Afghanistan’s most important alternative trade route and stall India’s multimillion-dollar investments in the facility.

The Taliban has cut fibre optic internet in Herat, adding the western province to the growing list of areas where broadband services have been shut down, sources told Afghanistan International on Thursday.

The US House of Representatives has approved an amendment to the 2026 defence budget that would allow the Pentagon to share intelligence with former Afghan security forces and resistance groups fighting the Taliban.

The Taliban’s Ulema council in Balkh has introduced new restrictions on funeral rites as part of a decree issued by the group’s leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, limiting wedding, mourning and pilgrimage ceremonies.

Taliban intelligence forces have detained several protesters in Mazar-e-Sharif after demonstrations erupted over the planned demolition of shops, sources told Afghanistan International.

Taliban Defence Minister Mullah Yaqoob Mujahid said the group’s main priority in its dealings with Washington is the lifting of US sanctions.

Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada is reportedly angry with Deputy Prime Minister Abdul Ghani Baradar for meeting a US delegation without his approval and without the presence of his trusted aides, sources told Afghanistan International.

Taliban leader Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada attempted to block the use of smartphones in Afghanistan before ordering the shutdown of wireless internet, sources told Afghanistan International.

The Taliban’s Ministry of Industry and Commerce said it has held talks with an Iranian delegation aimed at boosting annual trade between the two sides to $10 billion.

The Taliban’s Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice said this week it has rounded up more than 1,500 people with mental health conditions across Afghanistan and handed them over to the Red Crescent.

Taliban leader Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada’s decision to cut fibre optic internet across Afghanistan is final, sources in Kandahar told Afghanistan International.

Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has summoned Ahmad Shakib, the Taliban’s ambassador in Islamabad, amid rising activities by Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), sources told News.

Afghanistan’s banking system has suffered major disruptions after the Taliban cut Wi-Fi services in several provinces, including Balkh, sources told Afghanistan International.

Thousands of Afghan schoolchildren and university students have been unable to attend online classes after the Taliban cut internet services in several provinces, sources said Tuesday.

The Taliban has cut off wireless internet access in five provinces, reliable sources told Afghanistan International on Tuesday.

Mullah Yaqoob Mujahid, the Taliban’s defence minister, travelled to Doha to convey condolences to the Qatari government, replacing Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi, who remains under a UN travel ban.