Two days after the announcement of the death of Hamza Ulfat, a human rights activist in Daikundi, conflicting reports have been published about the manner of his death.
According to the Sunday Guardian, the Taliban is planning to send three more diplomats to the Afghan embassy in India.
US President-elect Donald Trump has announced that he will withdraw the US weapons left in Afghanistan from the Taliban.
A research institution called the Panjshir Studies Centre has published the findings of its survey of the residents of Panjshir province.
Following the visit of the Taliban's interior minister and intelligence chief to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a security source in Kabul told Afghanistan International that Abu Dhabi is mediating between the Taliban and Pakistan.
Zhao Xing, China's ambassador to Kabul on Monday said at a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Afghanistan and China that Beijing does not interfere in Afghanistan's internal affairs.
A senior Republican senator has said that he is concerned about the group's attack on the United States as the Islamic State grows in Afghanistan and wars spread around the world.
The Taliban's Foreign Ministry announced that Amir Khan Muttaqi, the group's foreign minister, met with Roza Otunbayeva, the UN Secretary-General's Special Representative for Afghanistan.
Jean-Louis Denis, a Belgian Islamist preacher, who was sentenced to five years in prison in 2016 for recruiting young people for jihad, has traveled to Afghanistan.
The Pakistan Army's Public Relations Office announced that it has handed over the body of an Afghan militant who was killed in a clash with Pakistani security forces in Zhob, Balochistan, to the Taliban.
Pakistan's special envoy to Afghanistan said that he had discussed with his Iranian counterpart the international geopolitical situation and the regional challenges facing the two countries.
The head of the Iranian Foreign Ministry's mission in South Khorasan has said that the ministry is ready to set up an Afghan consulate in Birjand.
Zalmay Khalilzad, the former US envoy to Afghanistan, called the statements of Abbas Stanekzai, the Taliban's deputy foreign minister, about the group's violation of women's rights and opposition to the closure of schools and universities a "promising development".