Statistics by the internal security commission of the Wolesi Jirga indicate that the Afghan National Security and Defense Forces (ANDSF) has engaged with the Taliban on 200 points in the past 24 hours.

On Thursday, forty days after the attack on the Sayed al-Shuhada school in western Kabul, families of the victims called on the UN to launch an investigation into the brutal attack that killed at least 85 students and wounded 275 others.