Truck Drivers Freed by Afghans Return
From Times Wire Reports
A group of 26 Iranian truck drivers released by Afghanistan’s Taliban militia arrived in Tehran, the official news agency IRNA reported. Most of the men had been arrested by the militia when it seized the northern Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif in August. The Taliban had promised to release Iranian prisoners when U.N. envoy Lakhdar Brahimi met with the militia’s supreme leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar, on Wednesday in a bid to ease tension between the Sunni Muslim Taliban and mainly Shiite Iran.
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