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TEHRAN (IQNA) – A Taliban attack on a housing complex used by international organizations in the Afghan capital, Kabul, late on Monday killed at least 16 people and angered local residents who demanded the heavily fortified compound be moved.
News ID: 3469319   Publish Date : 2019/09/03

TEHRAN (IQNA) – The government of Afghanistan has devised special plans to ensure the security of Shia Muslims holding mourning ceremonies in the lunar month of Muharram, a spokesman for the interior ministry said.
News ID: 3469309   Publish Date : 2019/09/02

TEHRAN (IQNA) – Taliban forces attacked the northern Afghan city of Kunduz on Saturday, Afghan and Taliban officials said, even as the United States and the militant group seem close to finalizing a deal for the withdrawal of American troops.
News ID: 3469291   Publish Date : 2019/08/31

TEHRAN (IQNA) – President Donald Trump said on Thursday that US troop levels in Afghanistan were being reduced to 8,600 but that American forces would remain in the country even if Washington reaches an agreement with the Taliban to end the 18-year war.
News ID: 3469279   Publish Date : 2019/08/29

TEHRAN (IQNA) – The death toll from a suicide bomb attack on a wedding reception in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, has risen to 80, two senior officials said on Wednesday.
News ID: 3469213   Publish Date : 2019/08/21

TEHRAN (IQNA) –  A series of bombings struck restaurants and public squares on Monday in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, wounding at least 34 people, officials said, as the country marked the 100th anniversary of its independence.
News ID: 3469203   Publish Date : 2019/08/19

TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Daesh (ISIL or ISIS) terrorist group on Sunday claimed responsibility for a suicide attack in Kabul on Saturday.
News ID: 3469193   Publish Date : 2019/08/18

TEHRAN (IQNA) – At least nine civilians were killed after a roadside bomb struck a minibus in Afghanistan's northern province of Balkh on Sunday, local police confirmed.
News ID: 3469190   Publish Date : 2019/08/18

Tehran (IQNa)- Afghanistan’s top cleric Ayatollah Sheikh Mohammad Asif Mohseni passed away due to an illness in Kabul.
News ID: 3469125   Publish Date : 2019/08/06

TEHRAN (IQNA) – A roadside bomb tore through a bus in western Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing at least 34 people, including women and children, a provincial official said.
News ID: 3469089   Publish Date : 2019/07/31

TEHRAN (IQNA) – The targeting of educational facilities during armed conflict is "a war crime", the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said on Friday after a bomb detonated near the entrance to Kabul University, in the country's capital.
News ID: 3468992   Publish Date : 2019/07/20

TEHRAN (IQNA) – A suicide bomber on foot targeted a wedding party in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Nangarhar on Friday, killing at least five people and injuring 40, local officials said.
News ID: 3468933   Publish Date : 2019/07/12

TEHRAN (IQNA) – Four security police personnel have been confirmed dead and eight others injured after the Taliban insurgents attacked security checkpoints on Monday outside Pul-e-Khumri, the capital of Afghanistan's northern Baghlan province, an official said.
News ID: 3468902   Publish Date : 2019/07/08

TEHRAN (IQNA) – Taliban fighters have killed at least eight people and wounded more than 50 civilians in a car bomb attack in Afghanistan's Ghazni province, according to government officials and the Taliban.
News ID: 3468893   Publish Date : 2019/07/07

TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Daesh (ISIL of ISIS) terrorist group claimed responsibility on Saturday for a deadly overnight attack in a mosque in central province of Ghazni in Afghanistan.
News ID: 3468887   Publish Date : 2019/07/06

TEHRAN (IQNA) – Taliban militants killed eight election commission employees on Saturday night inside a district center in Afghanistan’s southern province of Kandahar, officials said on Sunday.
News ID: 3468862   Publish Date : 2019/06/30

TEHRAN (IQNA) – A fresh round of talks between the US and the Taliban began in Qatar on Saturday, just days after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Washington is hoping for an Afghan peace agreement before Sept. 1.
News ID: 3468858   Publish Date : 2019/06/30

TEHRAN (IQNA) – At least 8 people were killed in a Taliban attack on government forces in Herat, local officials said.
News ID: 3468844   Publish Date : 2019/06/26

TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Afghan Taliban warned the country’s media to stop what the group called “anti-Taliban propaganda.
News ID: 3468822   Publish Date : 2019/06/24

TEHRAN (IQNA) – Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Saturday called for trust to be rebuilt between Islamabad and Kabul as Pakistan began a new initiative to bolster a faltering peace process aiming to end Afghanistan’s lengthy civil war.
News ID: 3468812   Publish Date : 2019/06/23