The United Nations Security Council is scheduled to hold its quarterly meeting on the situation in Afghanistan tomorrow, Monday (23 June). The meeting will focus on human rights, the humanitarian crisis, increasing restrictions on women, and security and economic challenges.

As a result of a shell explosion in Shirzad district of Nangarhar province, a woman has been killed and a child injured.

A woman in Qhor Mach district of Badghis province who had been imprisoned at home by her husband for five years has been rescued.

The family of Zalaala Hashemi, the missing Afghan singer, says the Taliban have pressured them to say Zalaala was not kidnapped, but rather left home of her own will. This comes as more than two weeks have passed since the mysterious disappearance of this female artist in Kabul, and there is still no information about her fate.