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Iran in talks with Taliban to resume 'Silk Road' rail project
Mar 09, 2022 02:53Iran is in talks with the Taliban to extend a rail link from its border city of Khaf to the Afghan city of Herat, an official has said.
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Taliban call for lifting of sanctions on Afghanistan
Mar 04, 2022 06:09The Taliban have called on the international community to lift its sanctions on Afghanistan shortly after the United Nations warns about the country’s ‘irreversible’ economic collapse.
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US would not have chosen 'embarrassing' Afghanistan pullout if it could, Iran FM tells Press TV
Feb 27, 2022 09:26Iranian Foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has dismissed US claims that the withdrawal from Afghanistan had all been planned beforehand, saying they would not have opted for such an "embarrassing" pullout if they had other choices.
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Explosion at mosque kills one, wounds 7 in northern Afghanistan
Feb 12, 2022 03:48An explosion at a mosque has killed at least one Afghan and wounded seven others in the northern province of Badghis, a Taliban official says.
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Afghan health system on brink of collapse due to sanctions
Feb 03, 2022 03:37The health care system in Afghanistan is on the verge of collapse amid rising COVID-19 cases. The Taliban blame the sanctions imposed on the war-torn country by the US for the current crisis.
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Iran calls on Australia to ‘responsibly’ deal with terrorists on its soil
Feb 01, 2022 13:53Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has reiterated the Islamic Republic's leading role in the fight against terrorism, urging Australia to “responsibly” counter all the terrorist groups active in the country.
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UN claims Taliban killed scores of former govt. officials; group yet to respond
Jan 31, 2022 05:34The Taliban and its allies have allegedly killed more than 100 former Afghan government members, security personnel and people who worked with the international military contingent in Afghanistan, claims a new report by the United Nations.
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US seeking to revive Daesh terrorists, justify its occupation through Hasakah violence: Syria UN envoy
Jan 27, 2022 09:55Syria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Bassam Sabbagh says the US is behind the latest spate of deadly violence in the northeastern province of Hasakah, warning that Washington is seeking to revive the Daesh terror group to justify its occupation of the Arab country.
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Taliban, Western officials begin talks in Oslo with focus on frozen assets
Jan 24, 2022 11:09Representatives of Afghanistan’s Taliban-led interim government and Western diplomats have held three-day talks in Oslo to discuss the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian crisis in the country and push for the release of assets frozen by the US and its allies.
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Taliban delegation begins 1st day of Oslo talks with Afghan civil society
Jan 23, 2022 16:53A delegation of the Taliban, the first to visit Europe since the group came to power in Afghanistan, has begun its first day of talks in the Norwegian capital, Oslo, with the Afghan civil society.