Tags - Afghanistan
Deputy FM:
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Abbas Araqchi says the Islamic Republic will continue to support the peace process and the promotion of democracy in Afghanistan .
News ID: 442865 Publish Date : 2019/01/07
Report:
The United States plans to withdraw around 7,000 out of its 14,000 troops deployed in Afghanistan , however, the direct-action Special Operations Forces (SOF) will remain in the country to continue strike missions against the Taliban militants and the Daesh terror group, media reported.
News ID: 442824 Publish Date : 2019/01/04
Journalist:
An American political commentator and journalist has warned that the United States has no plans to end the war in Afghanistan and might continue it for centuries.
News ID: 442704 Publish Date : 2018/12/29
Fresh off the announcement of a US military withdrawal from Syria, officials are saying that the Trump administration is actively considering a major drawdown of US troops from Afghanistan , potentially starting in the next few weeks.
News ID: 442569 Publish Date : 2018/12/22
NATO has emphasized its commitment to maintaining its armed forces in Afghanistan despite Washington’s announcement of its intent to pull out thousands of US troops from the war-torn country.
News ID: 442566 Publish Date : 2018/12/22
Officials:
Rasa - At least 20 women and children have been killed in an airstrike conducted by US warplanes in Afghanistan ’s eastern province of Kunar, local officials say.
News ID: 442133 Publish Date : 2018/12/16
Scholar:
Rasa - The 2001 invasion of Afghanistan and following occupation by the United States was largely to protect the country’s opium cultivation and exploit its vast mineral resources, particularly the deposits of lithium, according to James Henry Fetzer, an American academic who has been studying the events of 9/11 since late 2001.
News ID: 442022 Publish Date : 2018/12/11
Larijani:
Rasa - Iran's Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani says the United States has transferred a large number of Daesh terrorists to Afghanistan over the past years.
News ID: 441955 Publish Date : 2018/12/08
Rasa - The United States has “a long record of crimes” since the invasion of Afghanistan , says an analyst, adding that Washington has absolutely no business being in the war-torn country.
News ID: 441821 Publish Date : 2018/12/01
Analyst:
Rasa - The US military strategy in Afghanistan has failed to achieve any victories and has made the war-torn country the “graveyard” of US troops, as it had become for previous empires, says an American political analyst.
News ID: 441792 Publish Date : 2018/11/30
Zarif:
Rasa - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Wednesday at Geneva Conference on Afghanistan that the military presence of trans-regional countries has brought no stability to the Middle East, saying that the introduction of the ISIL to Afghanistan is a new challenge for the war-torn country.
News ID: 441789 Publish Date : 2018/11/29
Rasa - The head of Kabul Ulema Council, where Afghanistan 's top religious leaders gather, has been killed by armed men in the capital, official sources say.
News ID: 441733 Publish Date : 2018/11/25
Rasa - At least 26 people have been killed when an explosion hit a mosque in an army base in eastern Afghanistan , local security officials say.
News ID: 441703 Publish Date : 2018/11/24
Rasa - Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed in the so-called US ‘war on terror’ launched following 9/11 in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan alone, a new study noted. The author warned that the real death toll might be even higher.
News ID: 441479 Publish Date : 2018/11/11
Rasa - The United States “cannot win militarily” in Afghanistan , General Austin Scott Miller, the top US commander in the war-torn country, conceded in a recent interview.
News ID: 441435 Publish Date : 2018/11/08
Rasa - Despite 17 years of war and occupation, the United States and its allies have been unable to defeat the Taliban in Afghanistan .
News ID: 441387 Publish Date : 2018/11/05
Rasa - Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Morteza Sarmadi warned that the terrorist groups which have been defeated in Iraq and Syria are being transferred to Afghanistan and have grown a threat to the Central Asian states.
News ID: 441030 Publish Date : 2018/10/14
Rasa - US special envoy for Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad has reportedly met with the Taliban representatives in Qatar in an effort to bring the militant group to the negotiating table.
News ID: 441022 Publish Date : 2018/10/14
Rasa - The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) reported that at least 8,050 Afghan civilians were killed or wounded in the first nine months of 2018.
News ID: 440986 Publish Date : 2018/10/12
Rasa - For good reasons, the Afghan government has denounced as ‘destructive and divisive’ a proposal by Erik Prince, the founder of private military contractor Blackwater, to privatize the 17-year-old war in the Asian country.
News ID: 440913 Publish Date : 2018/10/08