* Afghan Interior Ministry claims a group was killed smuggling weapons from Pakistan. KABUL/KHOST: Nearly 80 Taliban rebels were killed in a series of air raids by international military forces near Afghanistan’s eastern border with Pakistan, a provincial government spokesman said on Sunday.

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The White House concluded in a recent secret report that the war effort in Afghanistan has not met strategic goals set this year, The Washington Post reported Sunday.

24 ноября широко известный и уважаемый житель Красноярска Рим Каримович Шайгалимов написал официальное заявление в «генпрокуратуру», что приписываемое евреям убийство 5 детей на самом деле было совершено работниками органов ФСБ России.

The press-service of Amir of the Caucasus Emirate reports that Amir Dokka Umarov said with regard to the revelation of new data during the course of collection of information on the death of the presidents of CRI (Chechen Republic of Ichkeria) Aslan Maskhadov and Abdul-Halim

During the last few years, all of the ethnic republics of the Northern Caucasus – Dagestan, Chechnya, Ingushetia, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachaevo-Cherkessia and Adygeia – have undergone changes in their leadership.

Amir of the Caucasus Emirate Dokka Umarov told in a statement for the mass media that the case of the former FM of CRI Akhmed Zakayev handed for investigation to the Muhabarat (Security Service) of the Caucasus Emirate.

Georgia’s President Mikheil Saakashvili held an emergency meeting of his security council Monday after the government charged that Russian helicopters had attacked a disputed gorge under Tbilisi’s control.

A Russian man held captive for 15 years in Georgia, where he was allegedly used as a slave, was handed over to Russia by Abkhazian security services. Vladimir Obidin, 68, was detained March 6 in a village after he crossed the border between Georgia and its breakaway republic of Abkhazia. …

The United States will host a peace conference in Annapolis, Maryland on Tuesday aimed at relaunching talks on Palestinian statehood after a 7-year break.Here is a timeline of events in Middle East peacemaking.

As Russia deployed additional troops to the Abkhazian conflict zone, Tbilisi has tossed around war rhetoric about Abkhazia. Georgia asserts that Russia has stationed dozens of armor and artillery systems in the territory of Abkhazia and posted 200 land troops in Ochamchire.