Local sources in Herat province say that a journalist has been arrested by the Taliban’s Department for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice forces.

The United Nations Human Rights Council, by adopting a resolution, announced the establishment of an independent mechanism to ensure accountability and investigate widespread human rights violations in Afghanistan.

The Taliban in Herat have arrested a woman on charges of stealing 3 million Afghanis.

Four years have passed since the fall of the republic and the return of the Taliban, four years in which each day serves as a reminder of deception, ignorance, and violence. Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban spokesman, in his latest interview with Sky News, claimed that the group faces “no problem of legitimacy” and that many countries have “unofficially” recognized them.