TEHRAN, November 25 - General John Nicholson, the top US Army commander in Afghanistan, has acknowledged that the war in the country “is still in a stalemate.”
TEHRAN, November 25 - General John Nicholson, the top US Army commander in Afghanistan, has acknowledged that the war in the country “is still in a stalemate.”
TEHRAN, November 24 -Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has called for efforts to restore calm to neighboring Afghanistan, hailing the Kabul government’s vigilance against divisive enemy plots in the region.
TEHRAN, November 21 -The International Criminal Court (ICC) plans to begin a probe into war crimes and crimes against humanity in Afghanistan by US-led forces, the Taliban militants, and the Afghan security apparatus.
TEHRAN, November 20 - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif and Special Representative for the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) Tadamichi Yamamoto discussed Afghanistan’s developments as they met here in Tehran on Monday.
TEHRAN, November 20 - Foreign Minister Zarif voiced Iran’s readiness to expand cooperation with United Nations and its other agencies on all expected areas related to stability in Afghanistan.
TEHRAN, November 18 - The administration of US President Donald Trump is pursuing a suicidal, self-destructive policy in Afghanistan which will only prolong a losing war there, according to James Petras, an American writer and retired professor.
TEHRAN, November 17 - An analyst believes that the deployment of additional US troops to Afghanistan will only prolong insecurity in the war-torn country.
TEHRAN, November 17 -The US Department of Defense has announced about 3,000 additional American troops have been deployed to Afghanistan under President Donald Trump's new war strategy for the country.
TEHRAN, November 11 - Four people including three Taliban fighters and one Afghan army personnel were killed and five soldiers sustained injuries after a suicide bomber targeted a military camp in Nawa district of the southern Helmand province on Saturday, spokesman for provincial government Omar Zawak said.
TEHRAN, November 11 - Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai said the regional countries should be vigilant against conspiracies of US government which is seeking to spread sow of discord in the region.
TEHRAN, November 9-The United Nations mission in Afghanistan said at least 10 civilians may have been killed by an air strike in the northern city of Kunduz last week, despite a U.S. military investigation that found no civilian deaths.
TEHRAN, November 4 -Afghanistan’s telecoms regulator wrote to internet service providers this week ordering them to block the messaging services WhatsApp and Telegram but it was not immediately clear whether they had complied.
TEHRAN, November 4 -The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has called for a formal investigation into war crimes in Afghanistan following the US-led invasion of the country in 2001.
TEHRAN, November 2-At least 15 people were killed and 27 wounded when fuel tankers exploded in the town of Charikar, northwest of the Afghan capital Kabul on Wednesday destroying a nearby bus, residents and officials said.
TEHRAN, November 1 -India has sent a ship of wheat to Iran to be transited to Afghanistan in what appears to be a dry run of a new multi-modal trade route that dodges Pakistan.
TEHRAN, October 21 - Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani extended condolences to Afghan nation and government over recent terrorist attacks in the country that killed dozens of Muslim worshipers.
TEHRAN, October 21 - Iran has strongly condemned twin suicide attacks in Afghanistan’s Kabul and Ghor, which claimed the lives of dozens of worshipers at mosques.
TEHRAN, October 21 - Spokesman for Afghan President Seyyed Shah Hossein Mortazavi in an interview said that his country will not allow anyone to use its soil to carry out aggression against neighboring countries.
TEHRAN, October 21 - Two rockets have struck near the headquarters of the NATO military mission in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, with no reports of casualties.