A joint report by global monitors expects last year's record high of nearly 59.1 internally displaced people to be broken this year, fuelled by conflicts and the climate crisis.
The Afghan government is brokering peace talks between Pakistani Taliban and Islamabad in a bid to bring years of fighting to an end.
Economic collapse, rising food prices and drought have forced some 20 million Afghans to go hungry, Save the Children says.
National Resistance Front, led by Ahmad Massoud, says they have seized three Afghan districts - a claim swiftly rejected by the Taliban government.
Deputy minister for disaster management Sharafuddin Muslim said the latest deluges wracked the provinces of Faryab and Parwan, as well as various other regions of Afghanistan.
The dangers posed by the terror group should be worrying for countries in Afghanistan’s neighbourhood and beyond.
Amid heavy security, Taliban chief Hibatullah Akhundzada delivered his brief address from one of the front rows of worshippers at the Eidgah mosque in Kandahar.
Daesh claimed responsibility for the attack as the country prepares to mark Eid al Fitr on Sunday under Taliban rule for the first time in more than 20 years
Two pylons in the province of Parwan were bombed late on Friday, cutting off electricity to the capital and neighbouring provinces.
A deputy spokesperson for Afghanistan's interior ministry said the explosion hit the Khalifa Sahib Mosque in western Kabul after Friday prayers "as worshippers were performing rituals."
Pentagon does not plan to conduct any operations to "retrieve or destroy" the equipment, according to a congressionally mandated report reviewed by CNN broadcaster.
A string of deadly bombings targeting members of the minority communities has convulsed the country in the past two weeks of the fasting month of Ramadan, killing and wounding dozens.
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