TEHRAN, December 13 - Afghan forces, backed by US aerial raids, are targeting Taliban field commanders whom they see as a major obstacle to possible peace talks with Kabul and Washington, officials and security sources say.
TEHRAN, November 29 -Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has called on the international community to engage the Taliban in an "inclusive" dialogue with the Afghan government in a bid to restore peace to the war-torn nation.
TEHRAN, November 06 - At least 20 Afghan soldiers have been killed in an attack by Taliban militants against an outpost in Afghanistan’s western Farah Province.
TEHRAN, November 05 -An Afghan delegation will attend international talks on the war-torn country, which are scheduled to be held in the Russia capital Moscow this month.
TEHRAN, October 27 - People in Afghanistan are showing unprecedented levels of pessimism about the future of their war-ravaged country, a US survey shows, as militant attacks continue to take toll on the lives of Afghans almost every day 17 years after the US invaded the country.
TEHRAN, October 17 -A bomber has killed two Afghan civilians and wounded at least three foreign troops in an attack near the largest US military base near the Afghan capital, Kabul, local officials say.
TEHRAN, October 10 -The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) says at least 8,050 Afghan civilians were killed or wounded in the first nine months of 2018.
TEHRAN, October 06 -The Taliban have destroyed a number of bridges and have set up checkpoints in Ghazni province in a bid to gain control over a vital highway linking Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul to the southern areas of the country.
TEHRAN, September 08 -A suicide bomber on a motorcycle detonated explosives close to Sunday’s procession commemorating the death of former anti-Soviet mujahideen commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, a police spokesman said.
TEHRAN, September 06 - An Afghan policeman has killed and burned the bodies of eight fellow officers before taking their weapons to join the Taliban militants.
TEHRAN, August 19 -The President of Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani attended a ceremony in Kabul on Sunday, August 19, held to mark the country's 99th anniversary of independence.
TEHRAN, August 11 -The Taliban and Afghan government forces have both claimed to have taken control of the country’s eastern city of Ghazni following fierce fighting.
TEHRAN, July 25 -A Swedish student on board a plane has prevented the deportation of an Afghan refugee from the country, after a lone struggle against the flight crew and other passengers, who were accusing her of causing a delay.
TEHRAN, July 24 -Several rockets have been separately fired at different residential areas in the Afghan capital of Kabul, wounding at least three people, police say.
TEHRAN, July 21 -Afghan President Ashraf Ghani might offer the Taliban militant group another ceasefire during next month’s Eid holiday, a government spokesman says, after the Afghan leader reached a truce with Taliban insurgents last month.
TEHRAN, July 11 -Gunmen attacked an office of the education department in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad on Wednesday and were battling security forces, officials said.