TEHRAN, June 16 - An explosion has killed at least 26 people at a gathering of the Taliban and Afghan security officials in the eastern province of Nangarhar as the two sides were marking their unprecedented three-day ceasefire on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr Muslim holidays.
TEHRAN, June 03 - A new UN report says nearly half of Afghanistan's children are not attending school because of worsening security, poverty and gender inequality.
TEHRAN, March 17 -An explosion in the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday killed at least three people and wounded two in an apparent attack on a foreign contractor company, officials said.
TEHRAN, February 24 - A high-ranking Yemeni official says the Saudi-led coalition has launched the fourth phase of its invasion of Yemen, adding the coalition has recruited Afghan and Pakistani forces to press ahead with its war on the impoverished nation.
TEHRAN, January 27 -Kabul reacted in despair and fear on Sunday, a day after a suicide bomb in the center of the city killed and wounded more than 250 people in the worst attack seen in the Afghan capital in months.
TEHRAN, November 19 -Afghan and foreign special forces raided a Taliban prison in southern Helmand province on Sunday and rescued at least 30 people, according to army and provincial officials.
TEHRAN, November 7 -A private television station in the Afghan capital came under attack on Tuesday by a number of gunmen who broke into the building after an explosion, officials said.
TEHRAN, October 5 -The world’s oldest refugee, who faced deportation from Sweden, will stay in the country after the court ruled the 106-year-old woman was unfit to travel back to Afghanistan.
TEHRAN, September 27 -Up to 20 rockets have struck the airport and surrounding areas in Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul hours after US Defense Secretary James Mattis and NATO’s General Secretary Jens Stoltenberg arrived in the country on an unannounced visit.
TEHRAN, September 12 - Afghanistan has urged India to speed up development of Iran’s strategic port of Chabahar which is on a course to open a transport corridor to landlocked Central Asian nations.
TEHRAN, September 5 - The 106-year old Afghan grandma faces deportation from Sweden has rejected the asylum application of a 106 year-old Afghan woman. Bibihal Uzbeki arrived in Sweden during a huge influx of people coming into Europe in 2015.
TEHRAN, July 26, YJC -Taliban militants have killed at least 26 Afghan soldiers and injured 30 more in an attack on an army base in Afghanistan’s southern Kandahar Province.
TEHRAN, July 11, YJC - Australian Special Forces are under a secret defense investigation for the unlawful killing of Afghan civilians, according to leaked documents, which provide new details of deadly incidents in southern Afghanistan.
Tehran, YJC. The Iranian Counselor in Afghanistan says that Tehran has provided special procedures for Afghan nationals which reduce the duration of visa issuance to two days.
The United States praised millions of Afghan voters who defied Taliban threats and attacks to vote in a presidential run-off election securing the country's first democratic transfer of power, with counting set to begin Sunday.
Afghan troops stepped up security, erecting more checkpoints, searching cars and banning trucks from the streets of the capital Kabul ahead of the presidential elections on Saturday.
United States Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel arrived in Afghanistan on a surprise visit Sunday, following the release of soldier Bowe Bergdahl, held hostage by the Taliban for five years, a US defense official said.
Afghan presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani pledged Sunday to fight on after coming second in preliminary election results, setting the stage for a difficult run-off vote likely to be targeted by Taliban militants.