The UN humanitarian office says heavy rain and flash floods continue to affect central, eastern and south-eastern Afghanistan, warning that floods and landslides may expose explosive ordnance.
Neda Mohammad Nadeem, the Taliban’s higher education minister, has asked Türkiye to send university lecturers and specialist doctors to Afghanistan to provide teaching and practical training.
Local sources in Sar-e-Pul say two Taliban members, including an intelligence employee and a soldier from the group’s 209 Army Corps, were killed in an armed attack in the provincial capital.
The World Health Organisation says flash floods between 20 and 25 July caused widespread humanitarian damage across Afghanistan, severely affecting homes, public facilities and livelihoods.
Amid rising tensions and border clashes with Pakistan, the Taliban has begun recruiting soldiers in Kunar’s border districts. A spokesman said the programme is under way in six districts bordering Pakistan.
UNAMA says Taliban’s morality police arbitrarily detained 389 people in Afghanistan between 1 April and 30 June, while 65 others faced mistreatment by the ministry’s ombudsmen.
UNAMA says the Taliban continued restricting media freedom through journalist detentions, media suspensions and broadcasting limits, documenting measures against Radio Bamyan, Lawang Radio and Rah-e-Farda TV.
UNAMA says the Taliban has restricted religious freedom by closing at least 33 Ismaili prayer halls in Badakhshan and limiting Shia religious ceremonies, including arresting people over Ashura observances.
UNAMA says at least 57 civilians were killed and 342 others wounded in armed clashes along Afghanistan’s borders between 1 April and 30 June, with most casualties attributed to Pakistani security forces.
The United Nations says killings of former Afghan security personnel are continuing, documenting eight deaths and 29 cases of arbitrary arrest or detention between April and June 2026.
The Afghanistan Freedom Front says its forces repelled several Taliban attacks in Zebak district of Badakhshan at around 10pm local time on Monday.
Taliban police in Badakhshan have confirmed that Zabihullah Amiri, the group’s head of information and culture in the province, has been killed in an attack by two motorcyclists.
The Taliban’s information and culture minister, Sher Ahmad Haqqani, discussed the group’s recent clashes with opposition forces in Badakhshan during a meeting with media officials in Kabul.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid on Monday responded to reports of recent clashes between the group and opposition forces in Badakhshan.
Iran is pursuing a plan to establish a joint free trade and industrial zone with Afghanistan and China, according to the director-general of economic and finance affairs in South Khorasan province.
The National Resistance Front of Afghanistan says its forces attacked a Taliban post in Kuran Wa Munjan district of Badakhshan on Sunday night, killing one Taliban fighter and wounding two others.
Faisal Mukhtar, the Taliban’s deputy governor in Nuristan, says the death toll from last week’s devastating floods has exceeded 30, with the bodies of 20 victims recovered so far.
Sources from the Afghanistan Freedom Front told Afghanistan International on Sunday afternoon, 26 July, that the group’s forces had advanced in Zebak district of Badakhshan after seizing at least two more Taliban outposts.
Local sources in Badakhshan say Juma Khan Fateh, a Taliban commander in Nusay who had been at odds with the group’s leadership, has returned home after spending some time in Kabul.
Sources from the Afghanistan Freedom Front told Afghanistan International that its fighters shot down two Taliban drones in Zebak district of Badakhshan around midday on Saturday.
Local sources in Takhar told Afghanistan International on Friday that the Taliban had promised to return weapons and military equipment seized from Ghulam Hussain, an influential Taliban Tajik commander.
Richard Bennett, the UN special rapporteur on Afghanistan, has warned against renewed military conflict between the United States and Iran, highlighting the precarious situation of Afghan refugees in Iran.