The Taliban's Foreign Ministry announced on Monday that Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanekzai, the ministry's deputy for political affairs, discussed the establishment of consular services for Afghans in Europe, especially in the United Kingdom.
The Bild newspaper reported that the German police were aware of the holding of a funeral ceremony for Khalil-ur-Rehman Haqqani by the Afghan Cultural Association Hesse eV.
Mohammad Ashraf Haqshenas, a spokesman for the Taliban's Ministry of Public Works, announced on Monday, December 16, that the Ghor-Kabul highway has been closed to traffic following heavy snowfall.
Esmatullah Muradi, the spokesman for the Taliban governor in Samangan, without providing specific figures, said that "all" workers trapped in a coal mine in Samangan were rescued.
The Taliban-controlled Bakhtar News Agency reported that Patricia McPhillips, head of UNESCO's office in Afghanistan, visited Minar-e-Jam in Ghor Province.
The Taliban’s Supreme Court has announced that a woman and two men were publicly flogged in the Khuram wa Sarbagh district of Samangan province, accused of “illicit relations” and fleeing from home.
Local sources have confirmed that approximately 35 workers remain trapped under rubble following a mine collapse in the Dara-i Sufi Payin district of Samangan province, Afghanistan.
The Taliban-controlled Bakhtar News Agency has reported that the Herat-Torghundi Highway in western Afghanistan has been closed to traffic due to heavy snowfall.
The Taliban’s Ministry of Commerce and Industry has announced a significant increase in coal exports, revealing that approximately 654,000 tonnes of coal were exported over the past eight months to Pakistan, China, Iran, India, and Türkiye.
Mehdi Bakhshi, the Prosecutor General of Kerman, Iran, has announced that 1,788 undocumented Afghan migrants have been arrested and deported from the province over the past three days.
Hamdullah Fitrat, deputy spokesperson of the Taliban, has called for the lifting of international sanctions against the group. He stated that the continuation of sanctions against the Taliban “violates the rights of Afghans.”
Reliable sources in Kabul have informed Afghanistan International that the Taliban’s intelligence agency has arrested two employees of the Ministry of Refugees on charges of involvement in the assassination of Khalil-ur-Rahman Haqqani, the Taliban’s Minister of Refugees.
The US Department of Justice announced that it has sentenced Abdul Sattar Barakzai, 59, to 30 years in prison for “participating in narcoterrorism for the benefit of the Taliban and the Haqqani Network.”
he leader of the Hezb-e-Islami party traveled to Paktia to attend the funeral of Khalil-ur-Rahman Haqqani, the Taliban's Minister of Refugees.
Save the Children said that the economic crisis, droughts and recurring floods in Afghanistan have affected the lives of children in the country.
The Thai immigration office at Phuket International Airport arrested three Afghan men and a woman on charges of possessing fake Kazakh passports.
Spain's foreign minister condemned the Taliban's restrictions on women at a conference in Madrid attended by dozens of Afghan women activists and representatives from various countries.
Yue Xiaoyong, China's envoy to Afghanistan, announced his meeting with Sharaf Rahimi, head of the strategic studies department of the Tajik Foreign Ministry.
In its annual report on terrorism, the US State Department announced that the Taliban continues to host and shelter al-Qaeda in Afghanistan.
Andrés Efren Montalvo Sosa, head of the UN Sanctions Committee said on Thursday (December 12) that a number of key Taliban officials are complicit in drug cartels and production and trafficking networks.
Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations Security Council, has warned that ISIS is actively seeking to destabilise Afghanistan and the wider region.
A Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said that a United Nations Security Council meeting on Afghanistan without the presence of a representative of the group is "useless”.
The Taliban's Supreme Court announced the flogging of two people for alleged extramarital affairs in Kabul.
Tim Burchett, a pro-Trump representative in the US Congress, told Afghanistan International that he had invited Ahmad Massoud, the leader of the National Resistance Front (NRF), to visit Washington and discuss Afghanistan.
he Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) announced that the source of the constant threats from terrorist groups is from the territory of Afghanistan.
The Taliban in Kabul has banned the broadcast of music in the media.
The Taliban’s Ministry of Higher Education announced that it has revoked the operating licences of 11 private educational institutions in nine provinces and has referred their officials to judicial bodies.
In response to Afghanistan International's investigative report on the torture of prisoners in Taliban prisons, the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRF) said that the report is just the tip of the iceberg as compared to the "crimes" committed by the Taliban.
Suhail Shaheen, the head of the Taliban's political office in Qatar, announced that he met with Jean-Marin Schuh, chargé d'affaires of the French embassy in Afghanistan.
The Taliban has accused ISIS of carrying out the assassination of Khalil-ur-Rahman Haqqani, the group’s Minister for Refugees, in what they described as a “brutal attack”.
The United Nations Security Council will hold a meeting on Afghanistan on Thursday, December 12. The UN Secretary-General's Special Representative Roza Otunbayeva is scheduled to speak at the meeting on the situation in Afghanistan.
Sources have confirmed to Afghanistan International that Khalil-ur-Rahman Haqqani, the Taliban’s Minister for Refugees, has been killed in an explosion.
Rina Amiri, the US envoy for Afghan women, said on Tuesday that the Taliban's discriminatory policies have added to the suffering of the people, especially Afghan women.
On International Human Rights Day (December 10), a Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said that the group accepts human rights principles within the "framework of Sharia law and Afghan culture”.
Taliban members set fire to a man in Khyber District, Faryab province, on charges of being a member of the National Resistance Front (NRF) of Afghanistan. In a video provided to Afghanistan International, Taliban gunmen can be seen gathering around the man's body.
On the occasion of International Human Rights Day (December 10), the UN special rapporteur on human rights Richard Bennett said that Afghans face gender abuse, civil restrictions, torture and humanitarian crisis.
Coinciding with the International Human Rights Day (December 10), the Taliban's Supreme Court announced that it had flogged a woman and a man in public on charges of "sexual relations" outside of marriage.
Sources in the Taliban's health ministry told AFP that at least 35,000 female students have been deprived of their education following the ban on women from medical institutions.
Coinciding with December 10, International Human Rights Day, the UN announced that if Afghans, especially women and girls, continue to be denied their rights, it will demonstrate the Taliban's deliberate and blatant irresponsibility for the welfare of the Afghan people.