TEHRAN, Jul 14 -Trump Administration’s nominee for chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has warned against early pullout of US forces in Afghanistan while insisting that China will remain the “primary challenge” to the American military for up to 100 years.
TEHRAN, Jul 12 - Pulling American troops prematurely from Afghanistan would be a "strategic mistake," the Army general nominated to be Joint Chiefs chairman told senators Thursday.
TEHRAN, Jul 12 - A suicide bomber on foot targeted a wedding party in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Nangarhar on Friday, killing at least five people and injuring 40, local officials said.
TEHRAN, Jul 8 - Foreign minister of Iran and Afghanistan’s ambassador to Tehran weighed plans to finalize a document on strategic relations between the two neighbors.
TEHRAN, Jul 2 -US President Donald Trump has vowed to maintain a “very strong intelligence” presence in Afghanistan, while repeating his claim that he wants to withdraw American troops from the war-torn country.
TEHRAN, Jun 30 - Taliban militants have staged an attack in southern Afghanistan, killing at least eight election commission employees amid ongoing peace talks in Doha, Qatar.
TEHRAN, Jun 23 -Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Saturday called for trust to be rebuilt between Islamabad and Kabul as Pakistan began a new initiative to bolster a faltering peace process aiming to end Afghanistan’s lengthy civil war.
TEHRAN, Jun 19 - Senior Iranian and Afghan national security officials discussed ways to ensure sustainable security in Afghanistan at a meeting in Russia, with both urging coordinated efforts to tackle terrorism.
TEHRAN, Jun 9 -Hundreds of US infantry soldiers are to be mobilized this summer prior to being deployed to Afghanistan in support of the US-led ‘Operation Freedom Sentinel,’ purportedly billed as the continuation of “the global war on terrorism.”
TEHRAN, Jun 8 -The International Criminal Court's (ICC) chief prosecutor has filed an appeal challenging the court's rejection of a probe into war crimes in Afghanistan by invading US forces, local Afghan troops as well as Taliban and other militant groups.
TEHRAN, Jun 3 - A magnetic bomb blew up a bus carrying government employees in the Afghan capital on Monday, killing at least five people and wounding 10 in a ball of flame, officials said.
TEHRAN, Jun 2 - Afghan officials said there have been three explosions in the capital, Kabul, including a sticky bomb attached to a bus carrying university students that killed at least one person.
TEHRAN, Jun 1- The head of the Afghan Taliban pledged on Saturday to continue fighting until the movement's objectives were reached and indicated it was still not ready to open talks with the Western-backed government in Kabul.
TEHRAN, May 31 - The blast comes just a day after a suicide bomber carried out an attack outside a military training academy in Kabul, killing six people, with the Daesh terror group claiming responsibility for the deadly incident.
TEHRAN, May 30 - The Taliban say "decent progress" has been made in talks with senior Afghan politicians in Moscow but that there has been no breakthrough towards ending two decades of the US occupation of Afghanistan.
TEHRAN, May 30 - A suicide bomber blew himself up at the entrance to a military training center in the Afghan capital on Thursday, killing at least six people and wounding six, police and security officials said.
TEHRAN, May 28 - At least 18 members of Afghan security forces have been killed after Taliban militants stormed several posts providing protection to a historic minaret in western Afghanistan.
TEHRAN, May 25 - Heavy flooding in Afghanistan killed at least 24 people and injured 11 others in the past 48 hours as a new wave of heavy rains swept parts of the country, Afghan officials said Saturday.