TEHRAN, Mar 12 - Herat governor of Afghanistan, while criticizing the extreme and radical interpretations of Islam in the countries of Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, and the dangers imposed, said that Iran's reading of Islam has always been moderate.
TEHRAN, Mar 11 - A new book says the late Taliban leader and co-founder, Mullah Omar, had long been living within walking distance of American military bases in Afghanistan as US forces were desperately searching for him in neighboring Pakistan, suggesting a failure of US intelligence.
TEHRAN, Mar 07 - Iran’s Foreign Ministry denounced a terrorist attack on a private firm in Afghanistan’s eastern city of Jalalabad that killed and injured tens of civilians.
TEHRAN, Mar 06 - Militants in Afghanistan set off a suicide blast on Wednesday morning and stormed a construction company near the airport in Jalalabad, the capital of eastern Nangarhar province, killing at least 17 people, officials said.
TEHRAN, Mar 06 - Flash floods, heavy rains and snowfall have killed at least 59 people across Afghanistan during the past two weeks and left thousands homeless, with the southern provinces of Helmand and Kandahar the worst-hit, an Afghan official said on Wednesday.
TEHRAN, Mar 03 - A U.N. humanitarian agency says at least 20 people died as heavy rains and flooding over the past few days swept away their homes and cars in Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province.
TEHRAN, Mar 01 - The US Defense Department is offering a new plan that would see all American troops exit Afghanistan within the next three to five years and end the 17-year-old conflict in the war-torn country, according to US media.
TEHRAN, Feb 27 - Dubai's Emirates airline has canceled all Pakistan and Afghanistan flights on Wednesday and Thursday due to the closure of both countries' airspace, a spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
TEHRAN, Feb 24 - A United Nations (UN) report says more civilians lost their lives in the war in Afghanistan in 2018 than any other year on record, nearly 18 years into a United States-led invasion and ongoing occupation.
TEHRAN, Feb 20 - Hundreds of Afghans marched in protest in the eastern Kunar province of Afghanistan on Tuesday, demanding an end to US airstrikes after increasing numbers of civilian casualties in the past months.
TEHRAN, Feb 16 -PAE Government Systems Inc. was awarded $27.6 million to provide contractor logistic support efforts for the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces.
TEHRAN, Feb 14 - Acting US Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan has told Washington’s NATO allies that the Pentagon will not reduce its troop presence in Afghanistan unilaterally.
TEHRAN, Feb 12 -The US military conducted more airstrikes in Afghanistan last year than any other year in the past decade, official data shows, a telltale sign that the administration of US President Donald Trump is stepping up engagement in order to get the upper hand in peace talks with the Taliban.
TEHRAN, Feb 11 -Patrick Shanahan arrived in Afghanistan on Monday on his first trip as acting U.S. defence secretary and said it was important the Afghan government is involved in talks, from which it has so far been sidelined, to end the 17-year-old war.
TEHRAN, Feb 06 - The Taliban say the United States has promised them to withdraw half of its troops from Afghanistan by April as part of a peace process in the conflict-stricken country, a report says.
TEHRAN, Feb 05 - The Taliban launched a pre-dawn attack on an army base in northern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing 26 members of the security forces, a provincial official said, the latest brazen assault by insurgents to defy stepped-up efforts to resolve the country's protracted war.