Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) along with 14 French media outlets and production companies called on Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers on February 6 to release a journalist imprisoned for a month in Kabul.
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Iran says border with Afghanistan secure
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Iran said its border with war-torn Afghanistan was secure on Friday.
TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran said its border with war-torn Afghanistan was secure on Friday, after the Taliban said it had seized a key crossing between the two countries. The borders of the Islamic republic are peaceful and secure, thanks to our diligent border guards, and there is no insecurity at our country s frontier with Afghanistan, foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said.
A Taliban spokesman said earlier Friday the insurgents had captured the main border post with Iran and were in control of 85 percent of Afghanistan, following an escalation in fighting as US troops withdraw from the war-torn nation.