TEHRAN, Jan 2 - Afghan officials say an Italian military adviser escaped unhurt after a rogue border policeman opened fire on his armored vehicle in western Afghanistan's Herat province, not far from the border with Iran.
TEHRAN, December 27 - Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani expressed the country’s readiness to enhance military and defense cooperation with Afghanistan.
TEHRAN, December 26 - Afghanistan's presidential election, initially scheduled for April, will be postponed for several months to allow time to fix technical problems that surfaced during October's parliamentary elections, officials said Wednesday.
TEHRAN, December 26 - The US Department of Defense, in a recent report sent to Congress, admitted Iran’s key role in ending the Afghan conflict, saying that Tehran “seeks a stable Afghan government”.
TEHRAN, December 25 - Senior Chinese and Pakistani diplomats discussed on Tuesday "new changes" to the situation in Afghanistan, China's foreign ministry said, amid plans by the United States to withdraw about half of the 14,000 U.S. troops based in the country.
TEHRAN, December 25 - In a 7-hour exchange of fire with Afghan police on Monday night, gunmen who raided a government building in the Afghan capital city of Kabul killed 28 people and wounded more than 20 others, Afghan authorities said.
TEHRAN, December 24 - A suicide bomber exploded his car outside a government department for martyrs and disabled persons Monday as gunmen entered the building where they were battling local police, Kabul police chief spokesman Basir Mujahid said.
TEHRAN, December 20 - Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman stressed the need for the enhancement of cooperation between the news media of Iran and Afghanistan.
TEHRAN, December 18 - A peace negotiations team of the Kabul government has arrived in Abu Dhabi, a day after representatives of the Taliban and Washington held talks in order to end a 17-year war in Afghanistan.
TEHRAN, December 15 - Afghanistan, Pakistan and China are meeting in the Afghan capital to discuss trade, development and ending the region's relentless conflicts.
TEHRAN, December 13 - The Afghan government has increased saffron production by 22 percent this year as part of a plan to create an alternative source of income for farmers dependent on opium poppy cultivation.
TEHRAN, December 10 -The 2001 invasion of Afghanistan and following occupation by the United States was largely to protect the country’s opium cultivation and exploit its vast mineral resources, particularly the deposits of lithium, according to James Henry Fetzer, an American academic who has been studying the events of 9/11 since late 2001.
TEHRAN, December 09 - An Afghan official says the Taliban have attacked an army checkpoint in the western Farah province, killing at least eight Afghan soldiers.
TEHRAN, December 08 -The United States should continue its military presence in Afghanistan if it wishes to prevent future attacks similar to what happened on September 11, 2001, the top US military officer has warned.
TEHRAN, December 05 - The Iranian ambassador to Afghanistan highlighted the reasons behind protracted conflicts in neighboring Afghanistan and said the presence of foreign forces is directly linked to the continuation of the war in the South Asian country.
TEHRAN, December 05 - Afghan officials sid the Taliban have attacked a police checkpoint in the western Herat province, setting off a battle in which a policeman and three civilians were killed.
TEHRAN, December 02 - US warplanes have dropped more munitions in Afghanistan during the first 10 months of this year than during any other full calendar year since the American Air Force began documenting monthly bomb usage in the war-torn nation back in 2006.
TEHRAN, November 30 - A United Nations investigation has found that at least 23 Afghan civilians, most of them women and children, were killed in a U.S. airstrike in the southern province of Helmand this week, the latest in a growing toll of casualties from air operations.
TEHRAN, November 29 -The US military strategy in Afghanistan has failed to achieve any victories and has made the war-torn country the “graveyard” of US troops, as it had become for previous empires, says an American political analyst.