Pakistani officials said the army destroyed several Taliban border posts after a shell struck a house in Angoor Adda, South Waziristan, killing one civilian. Five other members of the family were wounded, according to the officials.
Spain's representative to the UN Security Council announced that Madrid will host a meeting on 23 November to bring together Afghan women's organisations and activists and support their fight against institutionalised gender apartheid in Afghanistan.
Tammy Bruce, deputy US ambassador to the United Nations, told the Security Council that the Taliban had systematically dismantled decades of progress on women's rights and participation in Afghanistan over the past five years.
Abdullah Khenjani, spokesman for Afghanistan's National Resistance Front (NRF), said he had met several UN Security Council members in New York. He claimed an overwhelming majority of countries had decided that Afghanistan's UN seat would never be handed over to the Taliban.
Local sources told Afghanistan International on Tuesday that Taliban and Pakistani forces had clashed in the Angoor Adda area of Barmal district in Paktika province. They said Pakistani forces attacked Taliban fighters attempting to return to former border posts.
The Taliban's Interior Ministry says satellite imagery has identified 26,800 hectares of land used for drug cultivation across Afghanistan in 2026, with the crops subsequently destroyed.
The Taliban's Interior Ministry spokesperson said most narcotics, including traditional and synthetic drugs, were being smuggled into Afghanistan from Pakistan across the border.
The Taliban's Justice Ministry said its leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, had ordered the transfer of juvenile rehabilitation centres across Afghanistan from the prison administration to the ministry. The process of transferring responsibility has begun.
Elisenda Calvet, a judge at the People's Tribunal for Women of Afghanistan, has warned that European governments' diplomatic engagement with the Taliban could legitimise the group.
UN Women Deputy Executive Director Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda expressed concern over restrictions imposed on women and girls in Afghanistan during a meeting on women, peace and security, warning that the country faces the world's worst women's rights crisis.
The founder of an Italian aid organisation said she established a secret school for girls in Afghanistan after the Taliban returned to power, only to discover two years later that daughters of some Taliban members were among its pupils.
Several sources told Afghanistan International that the Taliban has recently begun reshuffling civilian and military officials across Badakhshan province. The changes have so far affected police commanders, district governors and intelligence chiefs.
Pakistan has urged the international community to hold the Taliban accountable for failing to meet counterterrorism commitments. On Monday, 26 October, its Foreign Ministry rejected Taliban claims of civilian casualties in Pakistani strikes on Afghanistan.
A recently circulated video shows a man identifying himself as a member of the Pakistani Taliban approaching Sirajuddin Haqqani, the Taliban's interior minister, and whispering something in his ear.
The Afghanistan Freedom Front (AFF) said on Monday, 26 October, that its forces had attacked a vehicle carrying Taliban members on the Kabul-North highway in Qarabagh district.
Sediqullah Khalid, deputy governor of Afghanistan's Taliban-controlled central bank, announced that all restrictions on bank accounts would be lifted by the end of the current Afghan solar year. Account holders reportedly continue to face withdrawal limits.
The Taliban's Minister of Industry and Commerce, Nooruddin Azizi, called on the United States to return $7 billion in frozen Afghan assets to the country's central bank.
Pakistan's Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Tariq Fazal Chaudhry, said Islamabad would act to end what he called terrorism originating from Afghanistan and reserved the right to take any necessary action if Afghan territory was used against Pakistan.
Afghanistan's National Resistance Front (NRF) said its forces killed two Taliban members in a targeted operation in Herat's Injil district. The group also claimed to have seized two firearms and a radio communication device.
Pakistan's Ministry of Information and Broadcasting on Saturday, 24 October, rejected allegations that it was arming Afghans to fight the Taliban or anti-Pakistan militant groups, describing the claims as "baseless and misleading".
New documents reveal that Switzerland spent more than $16,000 on a Taliban delegation's visit to Geneva in August 2025 to identify Afghans facing deportation and paid each of the four delegates a daily allowance.
New UNAMA chief Rabab Fatima says that despite the many challenges facing Afghans, their talent, aspirations and potential are greater than the difficulties they face.