Afghan National Army (ANA) keep watch at a check post in Chaparhar district of Nangarhar province, Afghanistan May 24, 2017. (REUTERS) February 20, 2020 Iran has supplied the Taliban with anti-aircraft missiles, the police chief of Afghanistan’s Uruzgan province said on Tuesday. Iran has supplied Taliban fighters in Afghanistan’s western province of Farah with [...]
A gas station that was burned during protests that followed authorities' decision to raise gasoline prices, in Tehran, Iran, Nov. 17, 2019. (AP) February 17, 2020 Iran’s Islamist rulers, who sparked deadly domestic unrest by raising gas prices in November, say their controversial move also has failed to ease fuel smuggling into neighboring [...]
Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr., commander of the US Central Command, in Capitol Hill, Washington, Dec 4, 2018. (AFP) January 31, 2020 There has been an increase in Iranian activity in Afghanistan that poses a risk to American and coalition troops there, a senior U..S. commander said, as the threat [...]
Iran road sign near the Pakistan Iran Border. (IRNA) January 23, 2020 Balochistan’s provincial administration plans to open border markets near Iran and Afghanistan to ensure the socio-economic development of the frontier region and curb criminal activities, such as drug trafficking and terrorism, in the area, authorities said on Wednesday. Balochistan, the southwestern [...]
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 [...]
