Thousands of Afghans poured into the streets of Kabul on Tuesday to condemn the recent U.S. decision to freeze Afghan assets, calling the move as unjust and open stealing.
The Department of Environment of the Southeastern Iranian Province of Sistan and Balouchestan says the water from Hirmand River in Afghanistan has not reached the Iranian territory despite the Taliban pledging to release the water toward Iran.
A spokesman for the Taliban says the group agrees to all the provisions of a treaty under which Iran and Afghanistan agreed to divide the water of Helmand River.
Iran’s special representative for Afghanistan says the Tehran administration has given the green light to exports of gasoline to the northeastern neighbor to help its people get through the frigid winter in the crisis-hit country.
Afghanistan has re-opened the gates of a dam near the Iranian border, allowing the Helmand River to flow into Iran, days after a visit to Tehran by a Taliban delegation.
A Taliban spokesperson says a recent visit by Afghanistan's Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi to Iran was an important trip with major achievements.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian has said sowing discord between Afghanistan and neighboring countries is a pillar of US policy in the region.
The Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran has distributed a shipment of food to the poor in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul as the country continued supplying humanitarian aid to the Afghan people.
Iran has sent a new batch of humanitarian aid to the city of Kunduz in Afghanistan, as the neighboring country continues to suffer from emergency levels of food crisis.
The situation on Afghan-Tajik border causes concern and alarm, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a meeting with his Tajik counterpart Emomali Rakhmon.
A local official in Iran’s Sistan and Balouchestan Province says Wednesday’s clashes between Iranian border guards and the Taliban started after the Afghan forces opened fire on Iranian farmers, but the area is calm now.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry says the Wednesday clashes along the borders with Afghanistan, which media reports said were due to a misunderstanding, have come to an end.
An Iranian diplomat has warned Afghanistan's neighbors should be helped out as they scramble to handle the outflux of refugees caused by two decades of US adventurism in the war-ravaged country.
