The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has announced that Taliban forces have prevented Afghan female UN staff from entering the organization’s offices in Kabul and the provinces.

Local sources in Helmand say that kidnappers have killed the son of a businessman after abducting him in this province.

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has announced that 516 women lost their lives in the recent earthquakes in eastern Afghanistan.

The Taliban in Takhar province have flogged 11 people, including four women, on charges of “illicit relations” and “theft” in the districts of Yangi Qala and Khwaja Bahauddin, in public.