<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Clashes between Taliban forces and Iran border guards today have left at least one dead on the Afghanistan side, an Afghan police official said.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“We have one killed and one wounded; the cause of the clash is not clear yet,” the police spokesman of the southern Afghan province of Nimroze, Bahram Haqmal, said.</div><div><br></div><div>Maysam Barazandeh, the governor of the Iranian border area of Hirmand, was quoted by the semi-official news agency Fars as saying the clashes had stopped and there were no casualties.</div><div><br></div><div>Iran’s Tasnim news agency said clashes broke out after Taliban forces tried to raise their flag “in an area which is not Afghan territory”.</div><div><br></div><div>Local sources told Reuters that people living near the border on the Afghan side fled their homes to take cover when the clashes intensified.</div><div><br></div><div>Since taking over Afghanistan a year ago, Taliban forces have frequently clashed with security forces of Iran, which neighbours the country to the west, as well as Pakistan, which neighbours it to the east. - Reuters</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>