Turk, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human ​Rights, said a decree signed by Taliban supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada last month "defines several crimes and punishments that contravene Afghanistan's international legal obligations".

In Afghanistan Taliban regime's support for terrorist groups has led to significant diplomatic and military setbacks. Afghan newspaper, Hasht-eSubh reveals that several Taliban officials have indirectly acknowledged the presence of extremist groups, such as Fitnah al Khawarij in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan's new envoy to India signals a major geopolitical shift, as the Taliban seeks diplomatic alternatives amid a sharp deterioration in Pakistan relations.

At hospitals, at seminaries and on buses, the Taliban is stepping up enforcement of rules on women's dress in the city of Herat.

Tens of thousands of Afghan citizens are returning from Pakistan each month, many of them pouring into Jalalabad, an Afghan city near the border. The city’s population has doubled in the past two years to 600,

According to Pakistani authorities, air raids in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar and Paktika provinces targeted sanctuaries of Pakistan Taliban, or TTP, and its affiliates, killing at least “80 militants in intelligence-based air strikes along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border targeting seven camps”.

Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have introduced a sweeping new penal code that rights groups warn effectively legalises domestic violence and

Pakistan’s military says its forces killed 34 militants in multiple raids, as a separate ambush killed four police officers near the Afghan border.