Irans foreign minister says the foreign, interior, and energy ministries have formed a joint committee to follow up on the issues related to cross-border rivers and the construction of dams in some neighboring countries, adding that Tehran has held bilateral talks with Turkey, Iraq, and Afghanistan over the issues. Speaking about the actions taken ...

The Taliban captured provincial capitals Qalat, Terenkot, Pul-e-Alam, Feruz Koh, Qal-e-Naw and Lashkar Gah in Afghanistan, hours after capturing Herat and Kandahar cities. The group so far has control over 18 provincial capitals across Afghanistan. In his first appeal to the group, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged the Taliban to immediately ...

MNA Indias eighth consignment of donated wheat to Afghanistan has arrived at Chabahars habaharPort, according to the director-general of Sistan and Baluchestan Ports and Maritime Department. The eighth vessel carrying 351 TEUs loaded with 8,097 tons of wheat has arrived in the strategic Iranian port, Behrouz Aghaei told Mehr News Agency on Saturday....

The Guardian - Lone Kabul laboratory preparing to treat patients in the midst of political turmoil and tentative peace talks, as border with Iran closed Preparations for an outbreak of coronavirus were underway in Afghanistan as the country confirmed its first case in the western province of Herat, which borders Iran. Seven more suspected cases ...

MNA Iran Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif held a phone conversation with UN Secretary-General Antnio Guterres on Friday, discussing the latest developments in Afghanistan. No further details about the talk have been revealed by the Iranian Foreign Ministry. Meanwhile, the Office of the Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General issued a ...

Bloomberg | Eltaf Najafizada: Afghanistan, one of the worlds poorest countries, is benefiting from an unexpected windfall in the wake of Irans downing of a Ukrainian jetliner in a missile barrage earlier this month. With many international airlines still reluctant to fly over Iran in the wake of the Jan. 8 tragedy, its neighbor is benefiting as ...

FNA - Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani warned of suspicious attempts to revive the ISIL terrorist group in Afghanistan. Shamkhani made the remarks in Tehran in a meeting with Afghan National Security Advisor Hamdullah Muhib on Wednesday on the sidelines of the 2nd Session of the Regional Security Dialogue ...

Press TV - Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, the Leader of Irans Islamic Revolution, says US leaders unauthorized trips to regional countries insult the freedom and independence of nations. Americans come [to the region] and enter a country like Iraq without any permission, do not visit the countrys government, do not go to the countrys capital; they ...

Tasnim Ranking diplomatic and military officials from Iran and Pakistan discussed the ongoing developments in the region, including the situation in Afghanistan. Chief of the Army Staff of Pakistan General Qamar Javed Bajwa, who is heading a high-ranking military and security delegation in his visit to Iran, had a meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister ...

MNA The Director General of Sistan and Baluchestan Ports and Maritime Department General Behrouz Aghaei said that building confidence for active presence of Afghanistans private sector in Chabahar port, facilitating transit of agricultural produce and encouraging entrepreneurs for launching a shipping line between India and Afghanistan are of the ...

IRNA - Iranian foreign minister in a message expressed concern over situation in Afghanistan, saying Iran is ready to help Afghanistan government to end violence. "Gravely concerned about Afghanistan," Mohammad Javad Zarif tweeted on Sunday. "Defeated foreigners must leave and fratricide must end; especially as foreigners can exploit the ...

MNA Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani strongly condemned the inhumane terror attack at a wedding ceremony in Kabul which left dozens of people dead and injured. In a Sunday message to President of Afghan Wolesi Jirga Mir Rehman Rehmani, Ali Larijani expressed deepest sympathies with Afghan people, government and parliament over the terrorist ...

ISNA | Mona Houbefekr: New ambassadors of Afghanistan, Italy, Bangladesh and Bolivia to Iran submitted their copies of credentials to President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday.  

IRNA Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Seyyed Abbas Araghchi and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres' Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan Ingrid Hayden discussed political developments on the future of Afghanistan. Miss Hayden who is currently in Tehran for talks with the Iranian officials on Afghan issues sat down for talks ...

MNA A senior Iranian parliamentary official referred to the ongoing political challenges in Afghanistan, saying neighbors paly an undeniably important role in ensuring the countrys security and solving its political challenges. [The issue of] Afghanistan is among the priorities of the Islamic Republics foreign policy, and Iran considers Afghanistans ...

IRNA Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi on Wednesday slammed US President Donald Trumps racist remarks against the Afghan nation. Mousavi described Trumps remarks as a threat to international peace and security, adding that Iran will stand by resistant people of Afghanistan, Afghan government and its scholars. In a meeting with ...

MNA Afghanistan has released two Iranian border guards who had been apprehended this morning for illegally crossing the borders. Ghulam Farooq Barikzai, a spokesman for the Afghan province of Farahs governor broke the news, saying that an Iranian officer and a soldier who were detained this morning for illegally crossing the border and entering ...

Tasnim | Foad Ashtari: New ambassadors of Bolivia and Afghanistan to Iran submitted a copy of their credentials to Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Sunday.  

Press TV - A powerful explosion in Kabul's diplomatic district during the morning rush hour has shaken the Afghan capital, leaving multiple casualties. Tens of injured were taken to hospital and ambulances were still transferring more, authorities said on Monday. Afghan security forces were battling gunmen who had forced their way into a building ...

IRNA The United States is misleading the world public opinion by unfounded allegations against Iran to cover up its failed policy on Afghanistan for the last 18 years, Iranian Ambassador to the United Nations Majid Takht-e Ravanchi said. Majid Takht-e Ravanchi made the remarks in the UN Security Council meeting on Afghanistan on Wednesday. He ...