TEHRAN (IQNA) – Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani held urgent talks with local leaders and international partners on Saturday as the Taliban pushed closer to Kabul, capturing a town south of the capital that is one of the gateways to the city.
News ID: 3475495 Publish Date : 2021/08/14
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Taliban captured two more provincial capitals Sunday as they gained ground in their fight to take over Afghanistan's cities after seizing much of the countryside in recent months.
News ID: 3475459 Publish Date : 2021/08/08
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Taliban said they have captured a prison in the northern Afghan province of Jawzjan and freed all of the prisoners.
News ID: 3475449 Publish Date : 2021/08/07
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Residents of a besieged Afghan city were urged to evacuate Tuesday as the army prepared a major offensive against the Taliban after three days of heavy fighting.
News ID: 3475424 Publish Date : 2021/08/03
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Afghan government forces struggled against Taliban assaults on several major cities Sunday as the group stepped up a nationwide offensive that saw a key airport in the south come under rocket fire overnight.
News ID: 3475394 Publish Date : 2021/08/01
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Afghan and Taliban forces clashed again on the outskirts of Herat Saturday, a day after a police guard was killed when a United Nations compound in the western city came under attack.
News ID: 3475381 Publish Date : 2021/07/31
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Forty-six Afghan soldiers sought refuge in Pakistan after losing control of military positions across the border following advances by the Taliban, Pakistan's army said on Monday.
News ID: 3475331 Publish Date : 2021/07/26
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that the Taliban should "end the occupation of their brothers' soil", and played down a warning from the group of consequences if Turkish troops remain in Afghanistan to run Kabul airport.
News ID: 3475294 Publish Date : 2021/07/19
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Representatives of the Afghan government and the Taliban met in Doha for talks Saturday as violence rages in the country with foreign forces almost entirely withdrawn.
News ID: 3475268 Publish Date : 2021/07/17
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Taliban warned Turkey on Tuesday against possible plans to keep some troops in Afghanistan to run and guard Kabul's main airport after the withdrawal of foreign troops, calling the strategy "reprehensible" and warning of "consequences".
News ID: 3475236 Publish Date : 2021/07/13
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Taliban fighters have surrounded the city of Ghazni in central Afghanistan, taking over civilians' homes to fight security forces, officials said on Monday, the latest urban center under threat from the insurgents.
News ID: 3475221 Publish Date : 2021/07/12
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif described dialogue and negotiations as the best option for Afghanistan to resolve the country’s crises.
News ID: 3475170 Publish Date : 2021/07/07
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The US continues its strategy of fomenting instability in Afghanistan and the region, an adviser to Afghanistan’s former president said.
News ID: 3475154 Publish Date : 2021/07/06
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A historian who teaches at Stanford University described the US project in Afghanistan as an immense failure.
News ID: 3475136 Publish Date : 2021/07/04
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Taliban has captured Afghanistan’s main border crossing with Tajikistan, an Afghan provincial official and army officer said on Tuesday, with some security forces abandoning their posts and fleeing across the frontier.
News ID: 3475031 Publish Date : 2021/06/23
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Taliban said on Sunday they were committed to peace talks, adding they wanted a “genuine Islamic system” in Afghanistan that would make provisions for women’s rights in line with cultural traditions and religious rules.
News ID: 3474993 Publish Date : 2021/06/20
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Taliban denied involvement in a terrorist attack targeting a Kabul mosque that killed at least 12 worshippers.
News ID: 3474716 Publish Date : 2021/05/15
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The death toll from an explosion near a school in a Shia district of west Kabul has risen to 58, Afghan officials said on Sunday, with doctors struggling to provide medical care to at least 150 people who were injured.
News ID: 3474655 Publish Date : 2021/05/09
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A Taliban attempt to gain ground outside Kunduz city, the capital of Afghanistan’s northern Kunduz province, has been foiled, provincial government spokesman Esmatullah Muradi said.
News ID: 3474426 Publish Date : 2021/04/11
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Daesh (ISIL or ISIS) terrorist group claimed responsibility for the killing of three women working for a local radio and TV station in eastern Afghanistan.
News ID: 3474148 Publish Date : 2021/03/03
