Afghanistan

The UNICEF Children’s Climate Risk Report 2026, released on June 16, found that 41% of Afghanistan’s roughly 21 million children are exposed to multiple climate shocks, including floods and droughts.

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), known as Doctors Without Borders, confirmed on Friday that a staff member was held for two days in early June.

"The arrests have heightened fear and apprehension among women and girls across Afghanistan," UN Women said, adding that many of the women had since been released.

The charges are based on his role as a Taliban commander in Afghanistan, leading attacks against US serviceman and allies, and taking hostages between 2007 and 2009.

At least 14 others were injured in strikes that violated Afghanistan's airspace and bombed civilian homes in the provinces of Kunar, Khost, and Paktika, a spokesperson added

Sources also told Afghanistan International that the Taliban has detained a number of protesters and has begun visiting hospitals in search of injured demonstrators.

Sara Yousefi and her mother, Chiman Hosseinzadeh, were said to have been killed by Mofti Mohammadollah, head of the Taliban’s Hajj and Endowments Department in Kohistanat district.

Abdul Malik Niazi, a Taliban official, told The Media Line that “the accident occurred on the main highway linking Kabul with Nangarhar province. 

Director of Russia’s Federal Security Service Alexander Bortnikov said the group’s “Khorasan Branch” had stepped up efforts to recruit members from other extremist groups.

The attack, which killed at least 24 people and injured more than 70, was the latest in a series of major strikes on infrastructure in the Pakistani province that borders Iran and Afghanistan.