Iran-Afghanistan Border Tensions Eased After Fatal Clashes.

Deadly clashes between Iranian security forces and Afghan Taliban border guards in Nimroz province have subsided, with both sides engaging in talks to ease tensions. The skirmishes escalated Iran's tensions with Afghanistan amid a dispute over water resources. Bilateral tensions have recently escalated over Iranian allegations that the Taliban are breaching a 1973 water-sharing treaty between Tehran and Kabul by blocking water flow from Helmand River, which flows from Afghanistan to Iran's arid eastern border regions. Analysts warned that Afghanistan and the region at large could ill afford another conflict.