Afghanistan

Richard Bennett, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, on Friday May 22 warned in a note on X about the rising trend of Afghans being deported from neighbouring countries and Europe.

The European Union is facing strong criticism from lawmakers and human rights groups after inviting Taliban officials to Brussels for talks on the deportation of Afghan refugees.

India says it has sent 20 tones of essential supplies for BCG, tetanus and diphtheria vaccines to Kabul to support Afghanistan’s child immunisation programme.

Pakistan says its policy towards the Taliban will not change unless the group stops supporting militants operating from Afghan soil.

Richard Bennett, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, has called for a full and independent investigation into Pakistan's recent deadly strike on a drug rehabilitation hospital in Kabul.

The Taliban governor’s spokesman in Baghlan Province said on Friday that at least 15 people were killed in overnight floods, which also destroyed more than 200 homes and vast areas of farmland.

Pina Picierno, Vice-President of the European Parliament, has warned that any agreement with the Taliban would amount to recognising a regime accused of committing crimes against humanity against women.

World Health Organization says women and children are the main victims of natural disasters in Afghanistan, accounting for 75 percent of people displaced by such events.

Abdul Ghani Baradar, Taliban's deputy prime minister for economic affairs, said on Thursday he hopes travel between Afghanistan and Uzbekistan will eventually take place without visas or passports.

Afghanistan Freedom Front says it carried out rocket attacks on a Taliban base at Kabul’s military airport on Wednesday night, claiming the site stored key equipment and trained Taliban fighters.

European Parliament on Thursday adopted a resolution condemning the Taliban’s penal code and calling for an end to public floggings and executions, as well as sanctions against Taliban leaders.

A high-level delegation including the Taliban's ministers of mines and agriculture and the director-general of the Breshna electricity company has travelled to Turkmenistan.

The Taliban's Ministry of Refugees has announced that 307 Afghans were released from Pakistani prisons this week. The ministry said they returned to Afghanistan via the Torkham and Spin Boldak crossings.

Following the Russian President's visit to China, Moscow and Beijing expressed concern in a joint statement over the major threat of terrorism emanating from Afghan soil.

Sources have told Afghanistan International that the Taliban have dispatched convoys of forces and military vehicles to Badakhshan province. The convoys are said to be heading towards Faizabad. The move follows heightened tensions over gold mining in the province.

A spokesperson for the Taliban's police in Kabul has confirmed that General Shaoor Gul Pashtun, a former deputy minister of defence of Afghanistan, has been detained on charges of murdering two women.

Naseer Ahmad Faiq, Representative of Afghanistan to UN, says that representation at the UN is the legitimate right of those governments that have come to power through lawful means and based on the people's will.

Sources have told Afghanistan International that Safiullah Rasouli, a 25-year-old man, has died under torture in a Taliban prison after 21 days in detention in Herat.