There are reportedly seven million Afghan refugees worldwide, with the majority of them in Pakistan and Iran.
A group of Afghan women rallied in Kabul on Tuesday to demand the right to education following the expulsion of female students from the Kabul University dormitory.
U.S. President Joe Biden froze more than $9 billion of Afghan assets in 2021 after the Taliban took over.
Afghan authorities confirmed the release of a U.S. civil engineer in exchange for an Afghan druglord sentenced to life imprisonment by a U.S. court.
Two Russian embassy employees were killed in a suicide bombing attack in the Afghan capital Kabul on Monday.
Provincial police spokesperson Mahmoud Shah Rasooli said the incident took place when the cleric was entering the mosque while coming from his house.
Nearly 20 million Afghans out of a population of more than 35 million are facing acute food shortage.
He said religious leaders had asked for the gathering to address an Islamic system of government and economic and social issues.
An Afghan refugee was executed in Iran on Monday for the murder of two Shiite clerics earlier this year.
The report follows a decline in the country’s total imports and exports since the Taliban takeover in mid-August.
