TEHRAN (Iran News) – Afghanistan election commission said President Ashraf Ghani has won a second term and will stay in office, earning 50.64% of a preliminary vote count announced Sunday, but his opponents can still challenge the results. The Sept. 28 presidential poll results have been repeatedly delayed amid accusations of misconduct and technical problems […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Minutes after the Independent Election Commission (IEC) of Afghanistan announced the preliminary election results, Abdullah Abdullah’s campaign in a statement called the results “fraudulent” and accused the IEC of supporting Ghani. Much-awaited and long-delayed preliminary results for the landmark presidential elections in Afghanistan were announced on Sunday. Afghanistan Election Commission announced […]

The Trump administration will announce as early as this week plans to withdraw around 4,000 troops from Afghanistan, US media reported.

US negotiators are taking a “brief pause” from talks with the Taliban after a suicide attack on an American base outside Kabul killed two civilians, US Special Envoy for Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad said on Friday.

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Suicide bombers struck an attack on the main US military base in Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing at least one person and injuring scores in a major attack that could scupper plans to revive peace talks between the United States and the Taliban. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack on US […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif declared Tehran’s support for “an Afghan-owned and Afghan-led peace process”, saying a withdrawal of foreign forces from the war-weary nation could pave the way for the peace and reconciliation process. “Announcement of a timetable for a responsible exit of foreign troops from Afghanistan would prepare […]

At least 13 Afghan soldiers and policemen were killed in two separate explosions in the country's southern province of Helmand, provincial sources said on Monday.

The governor of Chardara district in the northern Kunduz province of Afghanistan along with two of his bodyguards were wounded after a roadside bomb struck his car on Sunday, provincial government spokesman Esmatullah Muradi said.

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Afghan President Ashraf Ghani received Iranian government’s special envoy Ebrahim Taherian in Kabul on Saturday, where the two sides conferred on mutual relations and peace progress in Afghanistan The Iranian diplomat said that Tehran supports the Afghan-led peace process. He noted that the Islamic Republic of Iran honors the Afghanistan Constitution […]

At least 24 armed Taliban insurgents were killed and 31 militants affiliated with the Daesh (ISIL or ISIS) terrorist group surrendered to Afghan forces over the past 24 hours, officials said Saturday.