TEHRAN, October 06 - Iranian border guards have disbanded a three-member team of gunmen as they were trying to cross the country’s border with Afghanistan.
TEHRAN, October 06 - Almost half of Americans think the United States has failed to achieve its goals in Afghanistan after some 17 years into a war that was supposed to end the rule of Taliban and resolve the issue of terrorism in the South Asian country, a new poll shows.
TEHRAN, September 25 - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani underlined the importance of bilateral relations between Tehran and Kabul and said closer relationship in all areas will benefit both countries.
TEHRAN, September 18 - Almost 17 years after the US-led invasion of Afghanistan, NATO is now bidding a contract to build a large, concrete command-and-control center in Kabul, the country’s capital and largest city.
TEHRAN, September 18 - Pakistan's new premier Imran Khan has vowed to give citizenship to some Afghan refugees and Bengali immigrants, officials confirmed Monday, granting rights to many who have lived in the country for decades.
TEHRAN, September 17 - An Afghan official said at least five police officers have been killed in an insurgent attack on their base in northwestern Badghis province.
TEHRAN, September 14 - The Afghan conflict could overtake Syria as the deadliest conflict in the world this year, analysts say, as violence surges 17 years after the US-led invasion.
TEHRAN, September 14 - An Iranian deputy foreign minister and Afghanistan’s president reaffirmed commitment to coordinate Tehran-Kabul joint action against the Daesh (ISIL or ISIS) Takfiri terrorist group.
TEHRAN, September 12 - The death toll in a suicide bombing among a group of people protesting a local police commander in eastern Afghanistan has risen to 68, up from 32, provincial officials Wednesday.
TEHRAN, September 10 - Taliban insurgents have launched separate attacks on Afghan security forces in the country's north, killing at least 37, provincial officials said Monday.
TEHRAN, September 09 - Turkmenistan has inaugurated a large gas-powered electricity plant that is expected to sell about 3 billion kilowatt-hours of power a year to Afghanistan and Pakistan.
TEHRAN, September 08 -Afghan officials say at least 16 people, including women and children, have been killed in a traffic accident in the country's southern province of Kandahar.
TEHRAN, September 08 - At least 13 people were killed when a passenger bus collided with a truck parked on a road in southern Afghanistan on Saturday and overturned, officials said.
TEHRAN, September 07 - US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis landed in Kabul on Friday for an unannounced visit to war-torn Afghanistan, adding his weight to a flurry of diplomatic efforts to bring the Taliban to the negotiating table.
TEHRAN, September 06 - A suicide attack at a wrestling club in a Shi'ite neighborhood of the Afghan capital Kabul and a second explosion apparently targeting emergency services and journalists at the site killed at least 20 people and wounded 70 on Wednesday, officials said.
TEHRAN, September 05 -Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has named veteran diplomat Zalmay Khalilzad as a special adviser on seeking reconciliation in war-battered Afghanistan.
TEHRAN, September 04 - At least six police officers were killed by insurgents in two separate attacks on checkpoints in Afghanistan's northwestern Badghis and eastern Paktia provinces, provincial officials said.
TEHRAN, September 03 - U.S. Army Gen. Austin Scott Miller assumed command of the 41-nation NATO mission in Afghanistan in a handover ceremony on Sunday.