Since the onset of Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021, the Taliban-affiliated militants have conducted 26 clashes with Afghanistan neighbors. The armed conflicts have resulted in the death and injury of dozens of civilians as well as border guards from Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan and other neighboring countries.
Taliban militants prevented the construction of border walls by Iran in the past days and this issue increased the tension and eventually led to a conflict. Although the Taliban officials said that “they do not want a conflict with Iran”, their media figures continue to insult and attack Iran in social media.
ISWNews Analysis Group – During a border conflict between Iran and the Taliban in Sistan and Baluchistan province on May 27, one Iranian border guard was martyred and two others were wounded.
ISWNews Analysis Group – Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran Hossein Amirabdollahian has explained Tehran’s position on Afghanistan, saying that the Islamic Republic does not recognize the Taliban caretaker government in Afghanistan and only supports the formation of an inclusive government in the neighboring country.
ISWNews Analysis Group – Militants affiliated to Afghanistan’s Taliban caretaker government and Iran’s border guards fought on the outskirts of some villages in eastern areas of the city of Zabol in Sistan and Baluchestan Province of Iran and exchanged fire.
Iran’s water rights from the Hirmand River is an issue that has been a source of dispute with different governments in Afghanistan for years. Violation of water rights has led to environmental damage in the three countries of Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan and can turn into a more serious crisis.
ISWNews Analysis Group – A drone, launched from an unknown place, pounded a Taliban military base in Shire wa Mandre village in Chal district of Takhar province, Afghanistan, on April 24.
ISWNews Analysis Group – Taliban militants attacked the headquarters of the National Liberation Front of Afghanistan (NLFA) in Salang district in Parwan province on April 10, which left six members of the NLFA killed, including key commander of the anti-Taliban group Akmal Amir and deputy commander of the NLFA Basir Ahmad Andrabi, as well as a number of the militants who were killed and wounded in the raid.
ISWNews Analysis Group – In a raid by armed forces of the Taliban Intelligence Department on a hideout of the Islamic State Khorasan Province terrorist group in capital Kabul three terrorists, including intelligence and military chief of the IS-KP Qari Fateh, were killed.
After the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan, 11 unknown air attacks have been carried out in different areas, which are likely to have been carried out by Pakistani army fighter jets or the US drones originating from Pakistan and Tajikistan.
ISWNews Analysis Group – The 203rd Mansouri Division of the Taliban announced that the ISIS terrorist group is training at least 7,000 soldiers in Pakistan and sending them to northern Afghanistan.
ISWNews Analysis Group – Unknown drones kept flying over Kandahar city and Maiwand village in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, within 72 hours from Thursday to Saturday, according to the residents of the city.
