One dead in clashes between Taliban, Iran border forces, Afghan police official says

By Mohammad Yunus Yawar

KABUL(Reuters) – Clashes between Taliban forces and Iran border guards on Sunday have left at the least one lifeless on the Afghanistan aspect, an Afghan police official mentioned.

“Now we have one killed and one wounded; the reason for the conflict isn’t clear but,” the police spokesman of the southern Afghan province of Nimroze, Bahram Haqmal, advised Reuters.

Maysam Barazandeh,  the governor of the Iranian border space of Hirmand, was quoted by the semi-official information company Fars as saying the clashes had stopped and there have been no casualties.

Iran’s Tasnim information company mentioned clashes broke out after Taliban forces tried to boost their flag “in an space which isn’t Afghan territory”.

Native sources advised Reuters that individuals residing close to the border on the Afghan aspect fled their properties to take cowl when the clashes intensified.

Since taking on Afghanistan a 12 months in the past, Taliban forces have steadily clashed with safety forces of Iran, which neighbours the nation to the west, in addition to Pakistan, which neighbours it to the east.

(Extra reporting by Dubai newsroom; Writing by Gibran Peshimam; Modifying by Kirsten Donovan)