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Iran, Tajikistan, Afghanistan consider initiative for cultural collaboration
Mar 31, 2021 01:34The foreign ministers of Iran, Tajikistan and Afghanistan weighed plans at a meeting in Dushanbe for cultural cooperation among the three Persian-speaking nations.
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Cordial Iran-Afghanistan ties irk certain countries, groups: FM Zarif
Mar 29, 2021 11:22Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says certain countries and political groups are not happy with cordial ties between Iran and Afghanistan and are endeavoring to undermine those relations.
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Zarif in Dushanbe: Iran seeks lasting peace in Afghanistan
Mar 29, 2021 01:24Iran’s aim is to help peace take hold in Afghanistan and to end hostilities in the war-torn country, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said ahead of the 9th ministerial meeting of the “Heart of Asia” conference in Tajikistan.
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Iran's Zarif due in Tajikistan for Heart of Asia conference
Mar 28, 2021 07:57Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is due to travel to Tajikistan for a ministerial conference of the countries comprising the Heart of Asia platform that focuses on Afghanistan.
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Taliban vow to step up attacks as Biden says US may miss Afghanistan pullout deadline
Mar 27, 2021 08:54The Taliban have threatened to resume attacks against US-led foreign troops in Afghanistan following remarks by President Joe Biden that he may extend the US military presence beyond the May 1 deadline.
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Life goes on amid hopelessness and violence in Afghanistan
Mar 26, 2021 06:27Unlike previous years, the Afghan government has paid more attention to this year’s Nowruz by launching several different programs in historic and public sites.
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Biden should stop making excuses — it’s time to leave Afghanistan
Mar 25, 2021 09:34US Presidents from Carter to Biden — with a brief Clintonian interlude while Afghanistan was left to burn from the inside out — have played a politics of merciless intervention in that country. This meddling wrought a terrible price 20 years ago, in Afghanistan and the U.S., and the bleeding has never stopped.
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Libyan commander wanted for war crimes by ICC shot dead
Mar 25, 2021 09:14Unidentified armed men have shot dead a Libyan commander, loyal to renegade General Khalifa Haftar, who was wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes in the country’s eastern city of Benghazi.
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Ghani: Military helicopter shot down in central Afghanistan, killing all on board
Mar 18, 2021 13:25At least nine people have been killed after a military helicopter was shot down in central part of the country, Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani says.
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Four killed, 11 wounded in roadside bomb attack in Afghan capital
Mar 18, 2021 11:36At least four people have been killed and nearly a dozen wounded in a roadside bomb explosion in the Afghan capital of Kabul, officials say.