US Department of State

  • Delegates from the Taliban and the United States have held “candid and professional” talks in the Qatari capital, according to a US official, with the two-day discussions focusing on security and “terrorism” concerns, the rights of women and girls as well as evacuations from Afghanistan.

  • US Foreign Minister issuing a massage congratulates Nowruz.

  • Despite the US Republican presidential contender Donald Trump's statement about the necessity of renegotiating the P5+1 nuclear deal with Iran, the US Department of State's Persian-language spokesman Alan Eyre says any future US administration will respect the Iran nuclear deal.

  • Iran continues to meet its commitments under the nuclear deal reached last year between Tehran and the six world powers, said a source in the US Department of State.