Iranian border guards in Sistan and Baluchistan province. (Getty) April 24, 2021 Members of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard shot dead three militants and dismantled their cell in eastern Iran near the border with Afghanistan, Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency reported Saturday. An exchange of fire between Guard forces and a “terrorist team” resulted [...]
Members of the Taliban delegation attend the opening session of the peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban in the Qatari capital Doha, Sept. 12, 2020. (AFP) By Golnaz Esfandiari April 22, 2021 The announced withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan will grant Iran one of its biggest wishes and lead [...]
The Revolutionary Guards have sent not only young Afghans to fight in Syria, but also a number of Afghan children. (Supplied) By Daniel Dayan April 13, 2021 The process of peace talks in Afghanistan continues even as the situation of those Afghan citizens who were previously part of the Islamic Republic’s Fatemiyoun Brigade [...]
A Pakistani army soldier stands guard along with border fence at the Pak-Afghan border in Balochistan on May 8, 2018. (AFP) April 8, 2021 Pakistan is ‘speedily’ fencing its border with Iran and Afghanistan to curb militant attacks, Balochistan’s home minister told Arab News in an exclusive interview this week, admitting that the [...]
The Helmand River in Helmand province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan. (Reuters) March 24, 2021 Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said Wednesday that his country is committed to give Iran its due share of water under a decades-long bilateral treaty but he stressed that Tehran will have to pay for any additional requirements. “We will [...]
Afghan boys play soccer in front of the remains of a 1,500-year-old Buddha statue in the central province of Bamiyan, August 22, 2011. (Reuters) By Rami Rayess March 17, 2021 Iran is at a crossroads. It has hard political decisions to make, with each leaving marks on the regime itself, and the future [...]
Smoke rises from fuel tankers at the Islam Qala border with Iran, in Herat Province, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Feb. 13, 2021. (AP) March 6, 2021 Firefighters from Iran raced to a border crossing with Afghanistan after three fuel storage tanks caught fire on Saturday, officials told Iranian media. Iran sent 10 fire [...]
Afghan security forces patrol, in Farah, Afghanistan, on May 19. (AFP) March 3, 2021 At noon on March 1, Afghan and Iranian border forces exchanged fire in Nimrouz province, southwestern Afghanistan. The conflict flared up over clearing equipment being used in the Helmand River. The river has always been a contentious issue in Afghanistan, where border [...]
U.S. troops assess the damage after an attack in Kandahar, Afghanistan, August 2017. (Reuters) February 25, 2021 The United States always reserves the right to respond to attacks “at a time and place of our choosing,” a senior US general said Wednesday, adding that “the memory and reach of the US are very long.” The [...]
A satellite photo from Planet Labs Inc. shows the aftermath of a massive fire at Islam Qala border crossing in Afghanistan's Herat province on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021. (AP) February 16, 2021 Investigators began sifting through the ruins of a massive fire that destroyed hundreds of fuel tankers parked at a major crossing [...]
