Tehran 11 February _A huge bomb blast has hit Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul, in what appears to be the first deadly major assault in the city in months.
Tehran 9 February _American and Afghan forces partaking in a reported joint operation are said to have come under “direct attack” in Afghanistan’s flashpoint eastern province of Nangarhar.@
Tehran 2 February _US ‘peace envoy’ to talks with Afghanistan’s Taliban militant group has visited Pakistan in efforts to gather regional backing for reducing Afghan violence ahead of a final deal to end America's longest war, even though official military figures show the US dropped record number of bombs on the country since 2013.
Tehran 04January_Afghanistan's second vice president has hailed Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani as a "prominent figure" in the battle against the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group, saying his assassination has complicated the situation in the region.
TEHRAN, Dec 24_The Taliban militant group has killed at least seven Afghan soldiers in an attack on a military base in Afghanistan’s northern Balkh Province.
Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani voices alarm at the spread of terrorism and insecurity in Afghanistan as the main threats facing the war-torn country’s peace and stability.
TEHRAN, Nov 12_The Afghan government and the Taliban militant group have reached a deal to exchange captives, in a move that could pave the way for direct talks between the two sides.
TEHRAN, Sept 26-Preparations are being made for yet another key election in Afghanistan which is alarmed by the specter of violence and militant attacks. People are set to go to polls to choose the country’s next president on Saturday.
TEHRAN, Sept 17 -An explosion has hit a campaign rally attended by Afghan President Ashraf Ghani in the northern province of Parwan, leaving at least two dozen people dead.
TEHRAN, Jul 23 -US President Donald Trump claims he could “win” the war in Afghanistan “in a week,” suggesting it involves claiming the lives of “10 million people.”
TEHRAN, Jul 9 - Wary representatives of Afghan society met Taliban officials in Qatar on Monday (July 8) for a second day of talks, with bloody insurgent attacks back home casting a pall over efforts to end Afghanistan's years of war.
TEHRAN, May 12- Former US defense chief and CIA director Robert Gates has expressed concerns over the “real risk” of Taliban militants taking over Afghanistan in case American troops are withdrawn from the war-ravaged nation, further insisting that Washington lacks a long-term strategy to deal with China.
TEHRAN, May 11 - Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban’s chief spokesman and editor-in-chief of the insurgent group’s daily news bulletin, starts every day by collecting reports of overnight fighting with U.S. and Afghan forces.
TEHRAN, May 03 -Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani says his government is ready to declare a ceasefire with the Taliban militant group as the grand peace assembly, known as a Loya Jirga, demanded an immediate and permanent truce.
TEHRAN, Mar 23 - Two explosions went off at a public celebration in the southern Afghan city of Lashkar Gah on Saturday, killing two people and wounding the governor of Helmand province, security and hospital officials said.
TEHRAN, Mar 17 - Dozens of Afghan security forces have surrendered to the Taliban during intensified fighting by the militants for control of Afghanistan’s western province of Badghis, which borders Turkmenistan.
TEHRAN, Feb 02 - US President Donald Trump is seeking to replace American troops in Afghanistan with private contractors and mercenaries to outsource the US conflict against the war-torn country, says a political analyst in Virginia.
TEHRAN, Jan 17 -Several hundred protesters have marched in three cities in southern and eastern Afghanistan to call for a ceasefire and an end to the US-led war in the country.
TEHRAN, December 17 -The Afghan Taliban militant group says it is set to hold a fresh round of talks with US officials this time in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), despite earlier reports that suggested the meeting would take place in neighboring Pakistan.