TEHRAN, November 29 -Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has called on the international community to engage the Taliban in an "inclusive" dialogue with the Afghan government in a bid to restore peace to the war-torn nation.
TEHRAN, November 26 - At least 22 police were killed in a Taliban ambush in Afghanistan's western province of Farah late on Sunday, officials said, adding to the growing casualty toll on Afghan security forces fighting an increasingly confident insurgency.
TEHRAN, November 14 - Afghan officials said the Taliban have killed 12 members of the Afghan security forces, including nine soldiers who died in a battle in the Maidan Wardak province just outside the capital, Kabul.
TEHRAN, November 11 -Taliban militants have killed at least 25 civilians and government forces in Afghanistan’s central east province of Ghazni, a week after the militant group seized control of an important security post outside the provincial capital in a deadly attack on Afghan soldiers.
TEHRAN, November 07 - An Afghan official says the Taliban have killed eight police and wounded three others in new attacks on security posts in western Farah province.
TEHRAN, November 06 - At least 20 Afghan soldiers have been killed in an attack by Taliban militants against an outpost in Afghanistan’s western Farah Province.
TEHRAN, November 05 -Taliban militants have seized control of an important security post outside the central Afghan city of Ghazni, killing more than a dozen government forces manning the position.
TEHRAN, October 31 -The Taliban militant group has appointed five former detainees, who were held at the US military detention center at the Guantanamo Bay, as members of the political office in Qatar, which recently hosted talks with the United States.
TEHRAN, October 31 - An Afghan army helicopter crashed in southwestern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing 25 crew and passengers, provincial officials said.
TEHRAN, October 18 - Afghan and NATO officials say a bombing targeted a NATO convoy near the capital, Kabul. An Afghan spokeswoman says the attack involved a suicide bomber and killed at least two civilians.
TEHRAN, October 14 - Taliban militants killed at least 22 security forces, including a district police chief, in separate attacks on security checkpoints in two Afghan provinces, officials said on Sunday, ahead of parliamentary elections set for this week.
TEHRAN, October 14 - Afghan militant group Taliban have announced they will continue the so-called peace talks with the United States, insisting however that no tangible agreement has been reached in a first round of meeting in the Qatari capital of Doha.
TEHRAN, October 10 -The Taliban militant group has vowed to target Afghan security forces in the upcoming parliamentary elections in the violence-wracked country.
TEHRAN, October 08 - The Taliban on Monday vowed to target government security forces in upcoming parliamentary elections, as US peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad met with Afghan leaders to discuss ways to end the 17-year war.
TEHRAN, October 07 -At least 10 policemen were killed in clashes with Taliban fighters in the central Afghan province of Wardak, officials said on Sunday, amid fighting to wrest control of arterial highways a day after Taliban fighters blew up bridges.
TEHRAN, October 06 -The Taliban have destroyed a number of bridges and have set up checkpoints in Ghazni province in a bid to gain control over a vital highway linking Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul to the southern areas of the country.
TEHRAN, September 29 -A Taliban spokesman has rejected reports that the group’s representatives have met an Afghan government delegation this week in Saudi Arabia, after sources said a meeting was held to discuss security issues ahead of Afghanistan’s parliamentary elections.
TEHRAN, September 10 - Taliban insurgents have launched separate attacks on Afghan security forces in the country's north, killing at least 37, provincial officials said Monday.