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Afghanistan
Iran, Taliban fight on border with Afghanistan as sound of gunfire heard Afghanistan
2023-05-28
The Taliban and Iran reportedly exchanged gunfire Saturday on the Islamic Republic’s border with Afghanistan, an advocacy group said, as tensions rise over water rights between the two nations.

Neither Iranian state media nor Taliban-controlled media in Afghanistan acknowledged the fighting on the border of Iran’s Sistan and Baluchestan province and the Afghan province of Nimroz.

The advocacy group HalVash, which reports on issues in the predominately Sunni province of Sistan and Baluchestan, quoted residents in the area describing the fighting as starting Saturday morning. The group put the fighting near the Kang district of Nimroz, saying some people in the area had been evacuated.

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Posted by:badanov

#3  Are the Taliban tools of the CIA, the ISI or the Mossad? Perhaps they are just tools.
Posted by: Super Hose   2023-05-28 14:39  

#2  this is maybe the 7th or 8th or even 20th time this has happened

each time it gets smoothed over

still it is worth hoping
Posted by: lord garth   2023-05-28 14:36  

#1  A fight where I'm rooting on both sides to lose, like the Lakers and the Nuggets.
Posted by: Raj   2023-05-28 00:06  

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