The Taliban and Iran exchanged heavy gunfire Saturday on the Islamic Republic’s border with Afghanistan, sharply escalating rising tensions between the two nations amid a dispute over water rights.

06/01/2023 June 1, 2023. Iran and Afghanistan are locked in a long-standing dispute over the sharing of water from the Helmand River. Clashes broke out recently along the border.

The Taliban's Foreign Minister, Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi, hosted a delegation in Kabul on Sunday led by Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi to discuss multiple issues, including water ...

Credit: Wikimedia Commons Iran and Afghanistan exchanged heavy gunfire on May 27, killing two Iranian border guards as well as one Taliban solider, and wounding several others.

Iran and Afghanistan are going head to head over control of the supply of a crucial resource that’s shrinking by the day: water.. Violence along the border between the two tumultuous countries ...

Water Rights Déjà Vu. This is not the first time a conflict like this unraveled in the region. Back in July 2021, severe water shortages in the southwestern Iranian province of Khuzestan ...

Iran and the Taliban had seemingly entered a new chapter in their relations, with two common enemies — America, and after the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan in 2021 — the Islamic State ...