Amid this reorientation, Iran has quietly begun to court Afghanistan. This week, Abbas Araghchi conducted the first official visit to Kabul by an Iranian foreign minister in eight years, and the first ...

A major issue in the lawsuit from the estate of an Afghan man, who was killed by the Taliban after he was seen in Matthew Heineman's doc 'Retrograde,’ involves whether the subject's face should've ...

Welcome back to The Farda Briefing, an RFE/RL newsletter that tracks the key issues in Iran and explains why they matter. I'm RFE/RL correspondent Kian Sharifi. In this edition, I'm looking into ...

Iran’s Uneasy Dance with the Taliban Tehran’s relationship with the Taliban has seen many ups and downs—from nearly going to war in 1998 to later inviting them to Tehran while they were still fighting ...

On Jan. 26, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi became the country’s first top diplomat to visit Kabul in nine years. While there, Araghchi discussed a range of issues with his Afghan counterparts ...

A high-ranking Iranian economic delegation, including lawmakers and private investors, led by Industry, Mining, and Trade Minister Seyed Mohammad Atabak, visited Afghanistan for three days from ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Last month’s war with Israel and the United States lasted only 12 days, but Iran is likely to feel its consequences for years. The country’s intelligence ...

FILE -A Taliban fighter stands on a hill overlooking a camp housing Afghan refugees who have been repatriated from Pakistan, near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, in Torkham, Afghanistan, May 31, 2025 ...

The banner of the Taliban’s Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. The Taliban has condemned Israeli strikes on Iranian soil, including the elimination of nuclear personnel, denouncing the attacks as ...

For the short term, Tehran will prefer quiet security and intelligence cooperation with the Taliban rather than overt recognition. Russia’s formal recognition of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan in ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban have tortured and threatened Afghans forcibly returned from Iran and Pakistan because of their identity or personal history, a U.N. report said Thursday. Pakistan and Iran ...