Continued rain and snowfall in eastern Afghanistan have worsened conditions for families who rely on agriculture for food and were already affected by recent earthquakes, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization said.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned that the “law of the jungle” is increasingly replacing the rule of law, pointing to the unlawful use of force, attacks on civilian infrastructure, human rights violations and the obstruction of humanitarian aid around the world.
Elon Musk has criticised what he described as a lack of international protest over the Taliban’s ban on girls’ education in Afghanistan.
Amrullah Saleh, Afghanistan’s former vice president, has claimed the United States paid the Taliban $45 million in cash on January 13 and has pledged to provide a further $90 million later this month.
Some child labourers detained by Taliban authorities have been subjected to sexual harassment and abuse while in custody, according to a report by Afghan broadcaster Amu TV, which cited accounts from several children.
The Taliban administration spent about 96.9 billion afghanis on security in the first nine months of the 2025 fiscal year, according to a new World Bank report.
The Taliban’s prison administration said a representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross met a senior official in Kabul, where the authorities requested assistance for prisoners, particularly women.
A Taliban spokesperson in Khost province said three people have been arrested on charges of killing a former member of Afghanistan’s security forces.
Tajmir Jawad, described as a deputy intelligence chief and a key architect of Taliban suicide attacks, on Sunday praised the group’s cultural and media activists during a ceremony.
The Taliban’s Ministry of Information and Culture said Monday it has revoked the operating licences of nearly all media support organisations in Afghanistan, renewing permits for only three groups.
At least seven people have been killed in separate incidents in western city of Herat over the past week, according to information obtained by Afghanistan International.
Austria has deported an Afghan man to Kabul after he completed a prison sentence, the Interior Ministry said, marking the third such removal of an Afghan national in recent months.
The Pakistan Ulema Council has said the Taliban’s newly endorsed penal code is not based on Islamic teachings and contradicts the Quran and Sunnah, describing it as offensive to human dignity and not representative of Islamic law.
Pakistan’s exports to Afghanistan fell by about 56 percent in the first half of the 2026 fiscal year, the State Bank of Pakistan said in its latest report.
Rosemary DiCarlo, the United Nations under-secretary-general for political and peacebuilding affairs, met Sunday with Alireza Begdeli, Iran’s ambassador to Afghanistan, during her visit to Kabul.
Rosemary DiCarlo, the United Nations under-secretary-general for political and peacebuilding affairs, met Sirajuddin Haqqani, the Taliban’s interior minister, in Kabul, according to a Taliban statement.
Rosemary DiCarlo, the United Nations under-secretary-general for political and peacebuilding affairs, met Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi in Kabul on Saturday to discuss the UN-led Doha process, the Taliban Foreign Ministry said.
The death toll from three days of heavy snowfall across Afghanistan has risen to 61, with 110 people injured, a Taliban disaster management spokesperson said.
More than 2 million adolescent girls in Afghanistan are being denied access to secondary education, the United Nations said on the International Day of Education.
Representatives from about 20 European Union member states travelled to Kabul last week for talks on deporting asylum seekers to Afghanistan, Belgium’s state broadcaster reported Saturday.
Donald Trump said the role of NATO forces in the war in Afghanistan has been exaggerated, claiming allied troops stayed behind US soldiers and away from front-line fighting.
Rosemary DiCarlo, the United Nations under-secretary-general for political and peacebuilding affairs, has arrived in Afghanistan and is expected to hold talks with Taliban officials in Kabul, sources told Afghanistan International.