Category: Iran

Iran hosts meeting between Taliban, Afghan politicians

MONITORING (SW) – Iran has hosted a meeting between the Taliban and a number of Afghan politicians in the capital Tehran amid ensuing violence in Afghanistan.

EXCLUSIVE: Iran’s Revolutionary Guards behind Taliban’s deadly assaults

HERAT CITY (SW) – Findings by Salam Watandar indicate Iran’s all-powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps or most commonly known as ‘Pasdaran’ are behind the Taliban’s deadly assaults in Herat and Farah provinces in Afghanistan.

Thieves attacking Afghan migrants as ‘wild wolfs’

KABUL, Afghanistan (AA) – The evident signs of beatings by the Turkish border guards can still be seen on Shamsullah Ahmadzai body.

The enduring trauma of irregular migration

KUNAR (SW) – Evidently puzzled and shaken, Qiyas Qazi Khel of Kunar province still shivers when he remembers the difficult days of his irregular migration to Europe.

Return of over 500,000 migrants from Iran

QALAT (SW) – Amid the coronavirus pandemic, thousands of Afghan migrants have been deported back to their war-ravaged country.

Irregular migration; a gamble for life and death

MAIMANA (SW) – Afghanistan remains among leading countries whose citizens continue to migrate regularly and irregularly in a large number for various reasons.

COVID-19 causes ten more deaths

KABUL (SW) – Health ministry figures suggest at least ten people lost their lives to COVID-19 in the past 24 hours.

President Ghani inaugurates Kamal Khan Dam in Nimroz

President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani inaugurated the Kamal Khan Dam in Nimroz province on Wednesday.

Afghanistan welcomes declaration by Extended “Troika”

The Afghan government has welcomed the final declaration of the Moscow meeting, calling it a step towards serious negotiations to achieve a peace based on the will of the people.