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Afghan Militants Strike Pakistani Army Post, Killing Three

  • Militants in Afghanistan fired heavy weapons across the Pakistani border, killing three Pakistani soldiers (Associated Press)

Blast at Afghan Mosque Kills Thirty-Three

  • Thirty-three people were killed and forty-three others were injured in blast at a mosque in Afghanistan’s Kunduz province (CNN)

Explosions Across Afghanistan Kill Ten

  • A series of explosions in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, and the cities of Mazar-e-Sharif and Kunduz killed at least ten people and wounded dozens more; no one has claimed responsibility (Associated Press)

Blasts Near School in Afghan Capital Kill At Least Six

  • Blasts near a boys’ school in a Kabul neighborhood home to many Hazaras, an ethnic and religious minority, killed at least six and wounded eleven (Guardian)

Pakistan’s Cross-Border Strikes Kill Civilians in Afghanistan

  • According to officials in Afghanistan, cross-border strikes by Pakistan’s military killed at least forty-five people, including civilians; while Pakistan did not confirm it carried out the strikes, its military said its forces have suffered a dramatic increase in attacks by militants in Afghanistan (New York Times)

Taliban Bans Poppy Harvest

  • The Taliban announced a ban on harvesting, which is the main income source for millions of Afghan farmers (Associated Press)

Donors Provide Additional Aid for Afghanistan

  • Forty-one donors, including the governments of the United States, Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom, pledged $2.4 billion for Afghanistan at a UN aid conference that sought to raise $4.4 billion (Voice of America)

UN Hosts Pledging Conference for Afghanistan

  • The United Nations is holding a pledging conference that aims to raise more than $4.4 billion in aid for Afghanistan, though officials fear pledges could fall short of that target due to the Taliban’s increasing repression (Guardian)

China Holds Talks on Afghanistan With U.S., Pakistani, Russian Envoys

  • On the sidelines of a conference of ministers from Afghanistan’s neighbors, China will host a meeting featuring representatives from the United States, Russia, Pakistan, and several other South and Central Asian countries (South China Morning Post)
  • Separately, the World Bank put four projects in Afghanistan worth $600 million on hold following the Taliban’s decision to ban girls from returning to public high schools (Reuters)

Chinese Foreign Minister Visits Taliban Officials in Afghanistan

  • Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi visited Taliban officials in Kabul, marking the highest-level visit by a Chinese official to Afghanistan since the Taliban took over the country in August 2021 (Reuters)

Taliban Suspends Plan to Open High Schools for Girls in Afghanistan

  • The Taliban suspended a plan to open high schools for girls, saying schools would remain closed to girls until the Taliban plan an opening consistent with Islamic law and Afghan culture (Reuters)

UN Security Council Votes to Renew Mission in Afghanistan

  • Without using the word “Taliban,” the Security Council adopted a resolution to allow the United Nations to continue its humanitarian, political, and human rights work in Afghanistan (Agence France-Presse)

UN: Additional Eight Million People Experiencing Acute Hunger in Afghanistan

  • Twenty-three million people in Afghanistan are experiencing acute hunger, up from fourteen million people in July, the UN humanitarian coordinator for the country said (UN News)

UN: Nearly Four Hundred Civilians Killed in Afghanistan Since Taliban Takeover

  • Nearly four hundred civilians have been killed in Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover, according to the UN (Reuters)

World Bank Approves Disbursement of $1 Billion in Frozen Aid to Afghanistan

  • The World Bank approved a plan to disburse $1 billion in financing for reconstruction projects in Afghanistan that was set up prior to the Taliban’s takeover; it will be disbursed through UN agencies and international aid groups to bypass Taliban authorities (Reuters)

Taliban: Afghans With Legal Documents Can Travel

  • A Taliban government spokesperson said Afghans who have legal documents and invitations can travel abroad. Countries including the United States and United Kingdom had criticized the Taliban’s announcement on Sunday of new travel restrictions (TOLOnews)

Taliban Begin Incorporating Former Afghan Military Members into New Force

  • The Taliban-led government is working to transition officers and troops who served in the former government’s military into the Taliban’s force (Agence France Presse)

Taliban Dispatch Troops to Afghanistan’s Border Regions After Skirmishes

  • Afghanistan’s Taliban-led government deployed an estimated 4,400 additional troops to border provinces in the country’s north, northeast, and west after clashes with Iranian and Turkmen border guards (Gandhara)

Taliban Envoys Meet with European Union Diplomats

  • Representatives of the Taliban government met with European Union (EU) diplomatic envoys in Doha, Qatar. The Taliban requested humanitarian aid for Afghanistan, and the EU representatives voiced concerns about human rights in the country (TOLO News)

Gulf Cooperation Council Diplomats Call for National Reconciliation Plan in Afghanistan

  • During a meeting with Taliban envoys yesterday, diplomats from Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries called for a national reconciliation plan in Afghanistan that respects women’s rights to work and go to school (Al Jazeera)

Push Back in Kabul Against the U.S. Decision on Dispersion of Frozen Afghan Assets

  • Demonstrators in Kabul protested the Biden administration’s decision to use $3.5 billion in frozen Afghan assets to compensate victims of the 9/11 attack. Separately, Afghanistan’s Central Bank called on Biden to release the funds to it (Associated Press)

President Joe Biden to Use Frozen Afghan Assets for Humanitarian Relief, 9/11 Victims

  • U.S. President Joe Biden signed an executive order that creates a pathway to split $7 billion in Afghan central bank assets frozen in the U.S. banking system equally between humanitarian relief in Afghanistan and a trust to benefit victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks (Associated Press)
  • Separately, thousands of Afghan refugees awaiting resettlement in the United States gathered outside a U.S. diplomatic office in Abu Dhabi to protest the conditions they have been held in since evacuating to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in August (Wall Street Journal)

United States Offers $10 Million Reward for Information on Islamic State in Khorasan Leader

  • The U.S. State Department offered up to $10 million for information on Sanaullah Ghafari, the leader of the Afghanistan affiliate of the self-declared Islamic State, the Islamic State in Khorasan (ISIS-K) (Al Jazeera)

United States Allows Global Banks to Transfer Aid Funds to Afghanistan

  • The U.S. Treasury Department said international banks can transfer aid funds to Afghanistan without fear of violating U.S. sanctions against the Taliban (Axios)

Taliban Reopen Universities for Women in Six Afghan Provinces

  • The Taliban announced the reopening of public universities for women in six of Afghanistan’s thirty-four provinces (AP)