A Taliban spokesman said without elaborating that "we are trying to open girls' high schools."

The Taliban announced the names of a number of individuals, including two of the group's military commanders, who have been appointed to key positions in the Taliban government. A Taliban spokesman said Mullah Abdul Qayyum Zakir would be deputy defense minister and Sadr Ibrahim would be deputy interior minister.

Pakistan has called on world powers to release billions of dollars in Afghan assets that have been blocked since the Taliban returned to power. Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi says top priority is to prevent deeper economic crisis and humanitarian catastrophe in Afghanistan

Maryam Monsef, Afghanistan's Peter Burroughs's representative in the Canadian Parliament and Trudeau's Minister of Women and Gender Equality, lost the election to Conservative Michel Ferry. And was criticized

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian met with UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi in New York to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan and the situation of refugees and internally displaced persons.

British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace has ordered an investigation into the leaking of dozens of Afghan translators working for British forces. The email addresses of more than 250 people seeking asylum in the UK were mistakenly copied to one of the leaked emails of the British Ministry of Defense