The foreign ministers of Canada, Ukraine, Sweden, Afghanistan and Britain during a press conference in London after a meeting about the Ukraine International flight which crashed in Iran, January 16, 2020. (AFP) January 17, 2020 Five countries whose citizens died when Iran shot down an airliner last week said on Thursday that Tehran [...]
Taliban fighters in the Shindand district of Herat province, May 27, 2016. (AP) By Toby Dershowitz and Talia Katz January 15, 2020 On December 27, 2019, more than 500 members of American military families, including over 100 Gold Star families, filed two lawsuits: one against the Islamic Republic of Iran, and another against eight multinational companies that operate in Afghanistan. The pair of lawsuits alleges that the [...]
Ukraine International Airlines' Boeing 737-800 plane wreckage is seen in a picture from investigation team in Tehran, Jan 11, 2020. (Reuters) January 14, 2020 Iran faces international legal action by five countries whose citizens it killed when it shot down a passenger jet. Foreign ministers from Ukraine, Canada, Sweden, Afghanistan and the UK [...]
A Quds Force regiment made up of Afghan soldiers fighting for Iran has pledged to be at the “forefront of the harsh revenge” for the assassination of Ghasem Soleimani. (Press TV) January 8, 2020 A Quds Force regiment made up of Afghan soldiers fighting for Iran has pledged to be at the “forefront [...]
Taliban fighters react to a speech by their senior leader in the Shindand district of Herat province, May 27, 2016. (AP) January 6, 2020 The Taliban have condemned the killing of prominent Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani in a statement on Sunday, warning about the consequences, Iranian state media reported. The Taliban described [...]
Afghan job seekers queue for a work visa outside the Iranian embassy in Kabul. (UNHCR/M.Farhad) December 23, 2019 The top official of Tehran Province Immigration Office has pointed to the participation of some Afghan residents in recent protests and called for a ban on Afghans from becoming employers and getting jobs as cooks [...]
Admiral Ali Shamkhani, Iran's Supreme National Security Council Director. (Reuters) December 19, 2019 Iran’s top security official said Wednesday the Islamic Republic opposed US negotiations with Afghanistan’s Taliban, as the talks excluded the Afghan people and government. “Any strategy, any decision or plan without the participation of the Afghan people is wrong and [...]
A funeral for Afghan soldiers who were organized by Iran to fights in Syria and have been killed inside Syria, on May 05, 2015. (Tasnim) December 14, 2019 "We were trained for less than three days in a Tehran military barracks. We had to learn fast to go to war in Syria. We [...]
Nimruz province is a hangout for Afghan human traffickers who send Afghan citizens to Iran and European countries. (Supplied) December 10, 2019 He left the Moshkel mountain behind, but just hours after his arrival on Iranian soil, in the darkness of the night, the soldiers caught him. This 14-year-old Afghan teenager, who had [...]
Suppression of protesters in Marivan, Kurdistan province. November 2019. (Supplied) December 4, 2019 The Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs has officially called on Iran to explain the killing of a number of Afghan citizens by Iranian security forces in the course of the protests in November, Radio Free Europe's Afghan Service reported. The [...]
