KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — When asked about her engagement party this summer, little Sunam glanced blankly at her family, then fiddled with her gold-sequined engagement outfit — a speechless response not out of shyness, but because she does not yet talk much. Sunam is 3.

A suicide bomber killed one policeman and six civilians in southeastern Afghanistan close to the border with Pakistan on Saturday, a police commander said.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fateh faction ruled out talks with Hamas on Thursday as Israel warned any such dialogue with the Islamists could “torpedo” a peace deal with the Jewish state.

Syrian President Bashar Assad all but ruled out his country’s participation in a US-sponsored international peace conference on the Middle East, suggesting in an interview published Thursday that the meeting has no chance for success.

Ferryman Hisham freely acknowledges that the poor and dangerous conditions of Baghdad’s roads that drive residents of the capital to despair are, for him at least, a godsend.

Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei stressed that all Iraqi people and officials as well as the world of Islam are opposed to a US plan for the disintegration of the war-torn neighbor of the Islamic Republic.

Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei termed the forthcoming Middle East peace conference an effort by the United States to save Israel, rather than to bring peace to the Palestinian Territories.

Tehran’s provisional Friday Prayers Leader Ayatollah Mohammad Emami Kashani called on the Iranian university students to appreciate the value of the present opportunities and push the country towards further scientific progress.

Senegal’s President Abdoulaye Wade has called on Iranian companies to maintain a higher profile in free trade zone (FTZ) of his country.

Iranian ambassador to France has urged the 5+1 Group to provide the IAEA director-general with the opportunity to ease tensions and resolve Iran-West nuclear standoff.