Alexey Overchuk, the Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, has revealed that discussions are ongoing between Russian officials and the Taliban concerning the Afghan-Trans railway project.
Abdul Matin Qani, the spokesperson for the Taliban Ministry of Interior, announced that the death toll from the armed attack on tourists in Bamiyan has risen to six.
The Tajikistan State Committee For National Security announced that it has implemented strict controls for the entry of its citizens, stateless individuals, and foreigners into border areas with Afghanistan.
The Taliban announced in a statement that their leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, has instructed the group’s governors to avoid appointments based on personal relationships and nepotism.
Sources told Afghanistan International that Jean-Pierre Lacroix, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, met Amir Khan Muttaqi, the Taliban's foreign minister, on Thursday.
On Wednesday, the British Home Office announced that more groups of rejected asylum seekers have been deemed eligible for deportation from the UK to Rwanda.
Afghanistan International sources reported that the clashes between Taliban forces and Pakistani border guards in the Dand Wa Patan district of Paktia province continued for the fourth day in a "scattered" manner.
Mina Rafiq, a human rights activist, appeared with a placard on the sidelines of the Oslo meeting in front of political figures and Taliban members.
Ghalib Mujahid, the former district governor of Bihsud in Nangarhar province, said that he returned to Afghanistan at the invitation of the Taliban's Commission for Contact with Afghan Personalities, but after being harassed by the group, he was forced to migrate again.
The National Resistance Front (NRF) has announced that their forces killed four Taliban members and injured two others in an attack on a Taliban vehicle.
Khan Jan Alokozai, a member of the Chamber of Commerce and Investment, told Afghanistan International that Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan stopped exporting TC-1 fuel to Afghanistan three months ago.
The Afghanistan Freedom Front (AFF) announced that in an attack by its members on the guards of Mullah Hibatullah, the Taliban leader, in Kabul, three members of the group's special security guard were killed and another Taliban member was injured.
Nooruddin Azizi, the Taliban’s Minister of Industry and Commerce, announced in an interview with the Russian state news agency that the group is buying oil and petroleum products from Moscow.