Even as the Afghan government announced a three-month-long ceasefire in view of the Eid-ul-Azha festival, Taliban militants reportedly abducted almost 170 people in Kunduz on Monday, prompting government forces to launch an offensive to free the abductees. Security forces in Afghanistan have reportedly rescued at least 149 people, including women ...
The United States has an “addiction to sanctions,” Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said in an interview with CNN. “I believe there is a disease in the United States and that is the addiction to sanctions,” Zarif told the US broadcaster Sunday. “Even during the Obama administration the ...
