TEHRAN (IQNA) – At least 10 militants have been killed and over a dozen others injured as government forces launched operations against Taliban fighters in the troubled Chamtal district of Afghanistan's northern Balkh province, the army said on Saturday.
News ID: 3467851 Publish Date : 2019/02/02
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Negotiations in Afghanistan are going well, US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday, after US officials earlier this week said there had been significant progress in talks to end 17 years of war in the country.
News ID: 3467840 Publish Date : 2019/01/30
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Taliban officials said US negotiators on Saturday agreed on a draft peace pact setting out the withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan within 18 months, potentially ending the United States’ longest war.
News ID: 3467798 Publish Date : 2019/01/27
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Taliban ’s new political leader is expected to join meetings with US officials in Qatar imminently, Taliban sources said on Saturday as the latest round of talks to find ways to end the 17-year Afghan war entered a sixth day.
News ID: 3467795 Publish Date : 2019/01/26
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Afghanistan’s main intelligence agency has killed a Taliban commander who was the mastermind of this week’s deadly attack on Afghan forces at a military base in the central province of Maidan Wardak, officials said on Wednesday.
News ID: 3467777 Publish Date : 2019/01/23
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Afghan Taliban killed at least 12 security force members in a car bomb attack on a military base in the southern province of Maidan Wardak on Monday, officials said.
News ID: 3467754 Publish Date : 2019/01/21
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A car bomb attack on a convoy of the governor of Afghanistan’s southern Logar province killed at least eight Afghan security force members on Sunday morning but left the provincial chief unharmed, local officials said.
News ID: 3467744 Publish Date : 2019/01/20
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Afghan Taliban rejected reports in the Pakistani media that they were prepared to resume meetings with US special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad in Islamabad and repeated their refusal to deal directly with the Afghan government.
News ID: 3467733 Publish Date : 2019/01/19
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Taliban claimed responsibility on Tuesday for a car bomb attack near a heavily fortified foreign compound in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, that killed at least four people a day earlier.
News ID: 3467705 Publish Date : 2019/01/15
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Afghan Taliban representatives and US officials will sit down to two days of peace talks on Wednesday in Qatar but Afghan government officials will not be involved, senior Taliban members said.
News ID: 3467646 Publish Date : 2019/01/08
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Taliban insurgents have stormed security posts in west Afghanistan, killing 21 police and pro-government forces, officials said on Monday, the latest in a surge of attacks that has cast doubt on tentative steps towards talks.
News ID: 3467639 Publish Date : 2019/01/07
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Taliban militants killed at least 21 Afghan security forces and wounded nearly two dozen others in a number of simultaneous attacks in the country’s north.
News ID: 3467596 Publish Date : 2019/01/02
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani formed a 12-strong negotiating team to seek a peace agreement that would include the Taliban in a democratic and inclusive society that respects the rights of women, he told a UN conference on Wednesday.
News ID: 3467333 Publish Date : 2018/11/28
TEHRAN (IQNA) – At least 22 police were killed in a Taliban ambush in Afghanistan’s western province of Farah late on Sunday, officials said, adding to the growing casualty toll on Afghan security forces fighting an increasingly confident insurgency.
News ID: 3467304 Publish Date : 2018/11/26
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A three-day meeting between the Taliban and the US special envoy for Afghanistan to pave the way for peace talks ended with no agreement, the militant group said a day after the diplomat declared a deadline of April 2019 to end a 17-year-long war.
News ID: 3467256 Publish Date : 2018/11/19
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Taliban militant group has intensified its attacks on Shia-populated regions of Afghanistan with the US greenlight, an Afghan media activist said.
News ID: 3467252 Publish Date : 2018/11/19
TEHRAN (IQNA) –Russia said on Saturday that Afghan President Ashraf Ghani had agreed to send a group of senior politicians to peace talks in Moscow, at which a delegation representing the Taliban would be present.
News ID: 3467134 Publish Date : 2018/11/03
TEHRAN (IQNA) – An army helicopter crashed in southwestern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing 25 people on board, including a top commander and the head of the provincial council key in fighting off a Taliban attack in May, officials said.
News ID: 3467117 Publish Date : 2018/10/31
TEHRAN (IQNA) – With a week to go before the parliamentary elections in Afghanistan, it was reported that a number of Taliban members met with representatives of the Afghan government in Saudi Arabia.
News ID: 3466966 Publish Date : 2018/10/13
TEHRAN (IQNA) – At least 10 policemen were killed in clashes with Taliban fighters in the central Afghan province of Wardak, officials said on Sunday, amid fighting to wrest control of arterial highways a day after Taliban fighters blew up bridges.
News ID: 3466918 Publish Date : 2018/10/07
