Afghan envoy visits Nimrouz exhibit in Tehran
TEHRAN – On Saturday Afghan Ambassador Nasir Ahmad Nour visited the Nimrouz Global Visual Art Exhibition of Afghanistan now underway at Tehran’s Niavaran Cultural Center. A number of his colleagues also accompanied him during the visit to the showcase, which is displaying works by 53 Afghan artists and their expatriate colleagues, the center announced in […]
Suicide attack kills 4, wounds 5 in S Afghan province
LASHKAR GAH – Four people including three Taliban fighters and one Afghan army personnel were killed and five soldiers sustained injuries after a suicide bomber targeted a military camp in Nawa district of the southern Helmand province on Saturday, spokesman for provincial government Omar Zawak said. “A Taliban terrorist riding an explosive-laden car was attempting […]
Iran Urges Concerted Action for Afghan Peace
TEHRAN – Iran’s defense minister called for cooperation with Pakistan to help establish peace and security in Afghanistan. In a meeting with Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa in Tehran on Tuesday, Brigadier General Amir Hatami called for closer interaction between the two Muslim neighbors to ensure regional stability. Iran and Pakistan’s […]
Afghan Vice President’s Guards Sentenced over Abduction Case
TEHRAN – A court in the Afghan capital of Kabul sentenced seven bodyguards for the country’s vice president, General Abdul Rashid Dostum, to eight years in prison for abducting and raping a political rival. Ahmad Ishchi, a former governor of Mr. Dostum’s home province of Jowzjan, claimed in December 2016 that he had been abducted […]
Dozens Killed as Taliban Launch Fresh Assaults on Afghan Bases
TEHRAN – Taliban militants launched two separate attacks on Afghan security installations killing dozens of soldiers Thursday. At least 43 Afghan soldiers were killed in a Taliban-claimed assault on a military base in southern Afghanistan which saw the insurgents blast their way into the compound with at least one explosives-laden Humvee, the defense ministry said, […]
Afghans Not Going to Profit US Mining in Afghanistan
TEHRAN – The people of Afghanistan are not going to profit from US mining rare-earth minerals there, US journalist and foreign policy strategist Michael Hughes said. “It is always going to be the elite in that country and the foreign corporations” that benefit the mining in Afghanistan, Hughes said in an exclusive interview with Russia […]
Afghan Students Start New School Year Concurrent with Iranian Counterparts
TEHRAN – Afghan refugee children went to school in Iran on Saturday as the Iranian students started the new school year this morning. Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei has issued an order three years ago stressing that all Afghan children, even children of the undocumented migrants living in the country […]