TEHRAN (IQNA) – The United States and Russia have agreed to explore options on securing travel waivers for Taliban negotiators to participate in talks to end the war in Afghanistan , the US peace envoy said ahead of a fresh round of peace talks scheduled on Monday.
News ID: 3467980 Publish Date : 2019/02/23
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Afghanistan saw a bloody start to the new year with over 1,700 war-related casualties in January alone.
News ID: 3467873 Publish Date : 2019/02/04
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) – Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said on Monday the presence of foreign forces was based on an international agreement and they will not be required in the long term.
News ID: 3467816 Publish Date : 2019/01/28
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) – Saving several lives, the Afghan police have thwarted anti-government armed militants bid to detonate a mosque in western Herat province of the war-torn country, media reports said on Monday.
News ID: 3467642 Publish Date : 2019/01/07
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) – An explosion that ripped through a mosque inside an Afghan army base in the country's volatile eastern Khost province as Friday prayers were drawing to a close, killed 27 soldiers and wounded 57, the military said.
News ID: 3467289 Publish Date : 2018/11/24
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi on Tuesday denounced a terrorist attack earlier in the day in Kabul, Afghanistan , that targeted people who were celebrating the birthday of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
News ID: 3467274 Publish Date : 2018/11/21
