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A Taliban team deployed to destroy opium poppy fields in Badakhshan’s Jurm district has withdrawn amid growing internal tensions and local unrest, sources told Afghanistan International on Sunday.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.
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 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.
During a Taliban-organised rally in support of Palestine on Friday, several residents in Andarab raised the flag of the National Resistance Front alongside the Palestinian flag, according to local sources.
Shokofa Safari, a 28-year-old former Afghan National Army officer, has alleged that Taliban members gang-raped her over two nights while she was detained in Kabul, according to an interview with Rukhshana Media.
The National Resistance Front (NRF) has claimed responsibility for a targeted operation that killed the deputy chief of the Taliban’s Police District 8 and one of his bodyguards in the city of Kunduz.
Pakistani authorities have freed four members of the Taliban’s intelligence unit from a prison in Peshawar, sources told Afghanistan International on Friday.
India has resumed issuing visas to Afghans in six categories, the Ministry of External Affairs announced Thursday, May 29, 2025, marking a shift in policy after a four-year suspension.
A Russian Security Council delegation recently visited Kabul to discuss strengthening bilateral relations and trade with Taliban officials, Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu said Thursday.
Most websites of Taliban ministries have been restored following a cyberattack that disrupted over 20 government sites.