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Taliban says committed to providing Iran's water share

Taliban deputy foreign minister for political affairs Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai says that Afghanistan's ruling body is committed to providing Iran's water share from the Hirmand River.
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Publish Date:03/March/2024 | 14:26

Taliban Offensive Closes Iran's Main Trade Gateway With Afghanistan

EghtesadOnline: Due to political turmoil in Afghanistan and the Taliban ’s advance to Nimruz Province neighboring Iran’s Sistan-Baluchestan Province’s Hirmand County, Milak border crossing in this county (known as Zaranj on the Afghan side) has been temporarily closed down.
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Publish Date:08/August/2021 | 17:50

Trump Leans on Afghanistan Tactics That Failed Under Bush, Obama

EghtesadOnline: President Donald Trump’s new Afghanistan strategy -- more troops, pressure on Pakistan and diplomatic outreach to the Taliban -- relies on tactics his predecessors tried without success to get out of America’s longest-running war.
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Publish Date:22/August/2017 | 05:40

Taliban claim attacks in Afghan capital, at least three dead

EghtesadOnline: Afghan Taliban militants said they attacked police, military and intelligence targets in Kabul on Wednesday and security officials confirmed attacks in at least two areas of the city that killed at least three people and wounded dozens.
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Publish Date:01/March/2017 | 14:05

Taliban claim attack on house of Afghan member of parliament

EghtesadOnline: The Taliban claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on the house of an Afghan member of parliament on Wednesday night that officials said killed at least five people and wounded a number of others.
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Publish Date:21/December/2016 | 22:05

Intelligence gaps may have helped Afghan Taliban breach NATO fortress

EghtesadOnline: In the year before Qari Naib blew himself up on Nov. 12 inside a NATO base near Kabul killing four Americans, Afghan intelligence warned the U.S. military at least twice that a worker could be planning an attack, government and security officials said.
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Publish Date:24/November/2016 | 15:36

Opium crops spread in Afghanistan as Taliban gains ground, U.N. says

EghtesadOnline: The cultivation of opium poppy in Afghanistan, the world's main source of heroin, has risen to its third-highest level in more than 20 years, the United Nations confirmed on Sunday, as the Taliban insurgency gains ground.
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Publish Date:23/October/2016 | 09:09

Clashes continues in Kunduz, 100 Taliban militants killed

EghtesadOnline: The clashes are underway between the government forces and Taliban militants in the Afghan city of Kunduz in the northern part of Afghanistan as most people have taken shelter in their homes and helicopters and fighter jets hit Taliban military positions.
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Publish Date:10/October/2016 | 20:39

Afghanistan Wins More Financial Aid as Taliban Gets Stronger

EghtesadOnline: Leaders from more than 70 nations promised another four years of development support for Afghanistan on Wednesday, an acknowledgment that the country remains far from paying its own way as its leaders battle a resurgent Taliban and challenges such as corruption and internal political strife.
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Publish Date:09/October/2016 | 20:31

US, Taliban Sign Peace Deal

EghtesadOnline: The United States signed a landmark deal with the Taliban on Saturday, laying out a timetable for a full troop withdrawal from Afghanistan within 14 months as it seeks an exit from its longest-ever war.
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Publish Date:01/March/2020 | 11:04