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Afghan Vice President’s Guards Sentenced over Abduction Case 05 Nov 2017

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 19 Oct 2017

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 25 Sep 2017

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 23 Sep 2017

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 […]