Pakistani security forces conducted a ground operation on Sunday in the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa at the border with Afghanistan and eliminated 29 militants, Minister for Information and Broadcasting Attaullah Tarar said.
Iran may have transferred military and civilian aircraft to Pakistan and Afghanistan to protect them from potential U.S. strikes, CBS News reported, citing sources.
A shooting that occurred Friday afternoon in Herat Province in northwestern Afghanistan had resulted in seven deaths and 13 injuries, spokesperson for the Afghan Ministry of Interior Affairs Abdul Mateen Qani said.
Iran has urged both Afghanistan and Pakistan to reduce tensions. Iran's Foreign Ministry emphasized the importance of diplomacy for the conflicting parties.
Pakistan launched a series of airstrikes in Afghanistan, attacking Kabul, Kandahar, and other provinces. Several people were killed as a result of strikes.
Pakistan has announced the beginning of military operations against the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan.
Russia supports a diplomatic solution to the conflict between Afghanistan and Pakistan and urges an end to hostilities.
Tensions along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border have intensified, with Pakistan responding militarily to an operation launched by the Taliban.
The Afghan Air Force has launched an operation against Pakistan. It is being conducted in several provinces simultaneously.
The Taliban spokesman said that the Taliban would show sympathy and possibly cooperate with Iran if requested, but the group is not committing to joining a retaliatory war against the U.S.
Afghanistan is an observer state in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), and Kabul considers it appropriate to resume active participation in its work, Afghanistan's Ambassador to Russia Gul Hassan said in an interview with TASS.
Russia and Afghanistan will increase the number of direct flights between the two countries, Afghanistan's Ambassador to Russia Gul Hassan said.
Snow and heavy rain have killed 61 people in Afghanistan in the past three days, disaster officials said, with a major road and power also cut in several provinces.
The launch of Russian MIR payment cards in Afghanistan is not expected in the near future, according to Russian Presidential Special Representative Zamir Kabulov, who cited the unpreparedness of the Afghan banking system.
Russia has almost doubled exports of liquefied petroleum gas in the January-November period to the Central Asian countries and Afghanistan to 1.016 million metric tons, industry sources said.
A meeting of special representatives of Afghanistan's neighboring countries was held in Tehran yesterday. The meeting was attended by Russia's special representative for Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov.
Iran has transferred approximately three hundred prisoners to Taliban authorities, with all individuals handed over through the Dogharun and Islam Qala border crossings.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi held a phone conversation on November 18, the Russian Foreign Ministry reported.
Iran's Foreign Ministry has announced plans to host a meeting in mid-December amid rising tensions between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Tehran also intends to bring Russia into the negotiating process
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi have discussed over the phone attempts by the Britain, Germany and France to start an anti-Iranian campaign in the UN Security Council and the IAEA Board of Governors, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
