On Sunday, the Afghanistan Freedom Front (AFF) reported the killing of a Taliban "armed preacher" and injuries to two other members of the group in an attack on Taliban’s propagation of virtue and prevention vice office in Pul Khumri, Baghlan.

The front stated that it attacked in retaliation to the Taliban administration's harassment and discrimination against women.

Taliban’s office for the propagation of virtue and prevention of vice is located in the building of the former provincial directorate of women's affairs in Baghlan province.

Following the takeover of power in 2021, the group replaced the Ministry of Women’s Affairs with the Ministry of Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice.

The recent detention of women by the Taliban for not wearing the group’s desired hijab has sparked significant domestic and international condemnation.