TEHRAN (IQNA) – Former Afghan senator Abdul Wali Ahmadzai has been shot dead in Pol-e Alam, the capital of Afghanistan's eastern province of Logar, after being kidnapped, a spokesperson for the provincial governor said on Tuesday.
News ID: 3471652 Publish Date : 2020/06/09
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Two people were killed and two others injured after a planted bomb exploded inside a popular mosque in Kabul's fortified Green Zone.
News ID: 3471591 Publish Date : 2020/06/03
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Seven civilians were killed by a roadside bomb linked to the Taliban in northern Afghanistan, officials said Tuesday, even as authorities pressed for peace talks with the group.
News ID: 3471585 Publish Date : 2020/06/02
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Daesh took responsibility Sunday for a roadside bomb attack against a bus belonging to a local TV station in Afghanistan that killed two employees.
News ID: 3471573 Publish Date : 2020/06/01
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A top Afghan official appointed to lead the much-awaited peace talks with the Taliban said Saturday his team was ready to start "at any moment" with the group.
News ID: 3471549 Publish Date : 2020/05/30
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Afghan authorities plan to release 900 more Taliban prisoners Tuesday, as calls grew to for the militants to extend a ceasefire on its third and final day.
News ID: 3471516 Publish Date : 2020/05/26
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Taliban Monday claimed responsibility for a truck bomb in southern Helmand province that killed at least five Afghan security force members, an Afghan official said, adding to weeks of rising violence in the country.
News ID: 3471351 Publish Date : 2020/05/04
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A suicide bomber on Wednesday targeted a base belonging to Afghan special forces on the southern outskirts of the capital, Kabul, killing at least three civilians and wounding 15, officials said.
News ID: 3471309 Publish Date : 2020/04/29
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Taliban will release 20 Afghan government prisoners it was holding, a spokesman of the group said Sunday, the first handover since the beginning of a peace process.
News ID: 3471114 Publish Date : 2020/04/12
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Taliban met with the head of US forces in Afghanistan to call for an end to an increase in American attacks since a peace deal signed in February.
News ID: 3471103 Publish Date : 2020/04/11
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Afghan government plans to release 100 Taliban prisoners, a report said.
News ID: 3471083 Publish Date : 2020/04/08
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Taliban broke off talks over a prisoner exchange with the Afghan government Tuesday.
News ID: 3471062 Publish Date : 2020/04/07
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Afghan government will release 100 Taliban prisoners from jails on Thursday, said a senior security official, adding that in exchange the Taliban will release 20 Afghan security members.
News ID: 3471016 Publish Date : 2020/04/02
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani issued a decree promising to release 1,500 Taliban prisoners.
News ID: 3470888 Publish Date : 2020/03/11
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Taliban have handed over a list of 5,000 prisoners to the United States, a spokesperson for the group’s Qatar Office, Suhail Shaheen, said on Tuesday.
News ID: 3470885 Publish Date : 2020/03/11
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A weapon cache of the Taliban militants accidentally exploded in Shirin Tagab district of the northern Faryab province on Saturday, but caused no loss of life, said a statement of provincial police released Sunday.
News ID: 3470796 Publish Date : 2020/03/01
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The government of Afghanistan has made no commitment to free 5,000 Taliban prisoners as stated in a pact signed between the United States and Taliban militants, President Ashraf Ghani said on Sunday.
News ID: 3470791 Publish Date : 2020/03/01
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The United States signed a deal with the Taliban on Saturday that could pave the way toward a full withdrawal of foreign soldiers from Afghanistan over the next 14 months and represent a step toward ending the 18-year-war there.
News ID: 3470785 Publish Date : 2020/02/29
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Taliban fighters attacked Afghan government forces overnight, and militant commanders said on Monday insurgency operations would go-ahead until they receive fresh instructions based on a deal with the United States to reduce violence in the country.
News ID: 3470665 Publish Date : 2020/02/17
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A US-Taliban peace deal could be signed this month if the Taliban significantly reduces violence, which could lead to an eventual withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, two Afghan government sources and a Western diplomat said on Wednesday.
News ID: 3470621 Publish Date : 2020/02/12
