Two civilians were killed Saturday in a blast that rocked the Dasht-e-Barchi neighborhood of Kabul a day after Daesh killed a prominent Afghan cleric in the Afghan capital. The deadly attacks occurred a week after another deadly bomb blast targeted a busy shopping street in Afghanistan's capital Kabul. Last weeks attack killed at least eight people ...

Iranian Foreign Minister says that it is the responsibility of the current governing body of Afghanistan to fully maintain the security of the diplomatic missions of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the country. Hossein Amir-Abdollahian made the remarks in his phone conversation with the Iranian ambassador to Kabul. The phone talk came after videos ...

The influx of Afghan refugees to Iran cannot continue considering the countrys limited capacities, the spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry said, calling on the Taliban to exercise responsibility. In comments at a weekly press conference on Monday, Saeed Khatibzadeh pointed to a new wave of Afghan refugees that Iran has begun to absorb in ...

Deputy spokesman of Taliban Ahmadullah Wasiq has described talks in Tehran between Taliban and Iranian delegations as constructive. Speaking to media in Afghanistan onMonday, Wasiq said talks in Tehran were focused on security, transit, trade, and energy issues. Also, the two reviewed issues related to bilateral relations, he added. An ...

MNA Irans special envoy for Afghanistan Mohammad Ebrahim Taherian and Taliban political bureau officials held a phone talk on the latest developments in Afghanistan. During the telephone conversation, the two sides exchanged views on future developments in inter-Afghan talks and comprehensive efforts to prevent the spread of the coronavirus in ...

MNA Irans Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani said that the Islamic Republic does not provide the Taliban with military assistance. He made the remarks in a news conference at 2nd Regional Security Dialogue at Tehrans Azadi Hotel on Wed. adding "Iran's military assistance to the Taliban contradicts the policy of ...

Al-Monitor | Mohsen Shariatinia: A delegation of senior Taliban officials arrived in Tehran on Nov. 27 for talks with Iranian authorities, including Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. Headed by the group's bureau chief, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the team comprised the Taliban's highest-ranking members to have ever visited Iran. Since its emergence ...

Al-Monitor - Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif confirmed that Tehran is currently hosting a delegation of Taliban leaders to discuss the peace process in Afghanistan. "To work toward peace in Afghanistan, we will sit down with all Afghan political groups and they [the Taliban delegation] are here for the same purpose," Zarif told reporters ...

Iranian Diplomacy - An expert of Afghan affairs believes: Prior to Irans talks with the Taliban, the government ofAfghanistanhad embarked on Afghan-to-Afghan talks with the Taliban. However, Kabuls harsh position against Tehran has been taken from an angle of inactiveness on their part as a reaction to Irans initiative. Afghanistans deputy foreign ...

NDTV - As concerns grow in India about a resurgent Taliban and the possibility of the terror group coming to power in Afghanistan, Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Zarif has told NDTV that it's impossible to have a future Afghan government without a role for the Taliban, though it should not have a dominant role. Iran started formal talks with the ...

IRNA Iran talks with Taliban was aimed at maintaining peace to Afghanistan, Iranian defense minister said on Monday, adding that it was held with Afghan government coordination. Speaking to the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) on the sidelines of Seminar of 'Peace, Stability and Sustainable Security in Light of Defense Cooperation, which was ...

FNA - Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araqchi stressed that despite playing a mediatory role in peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban, Tehran can never forget the killing of its diplomats by the group in Mazar-i Sharif in 1998. Araqchi wrote on his twitter page on Sunday that during his current trip to Afghanistan ...

MNA Chief of Staff of Iranian president said that negotiations between Tehran and Taliban are being held in coordination with the Afghan government. Before meeting with the Taliban delegation, we held talks with the Afghan government, Mahmoud Vaezi told ISNA on Thursday, adding, I have heard no report indicating that Afghan government is discontented ...

IRNA -- Pakistani print and electronic media have given wide coverage to the talks between Iran and the Taliban to bring peace and stability in Afghanistan. Daily Dawn reported that Iran has said that the Afghan Taliban have visited Tehran for a second round of peace talks in just a few days aimed at bringing an end to 17 years of conflict. A ...