TEHRAN (FNA)- Tehran’s Law Enforcement Police squad arrested a large number of professional thieves, pickpockets and burglars during a series of nocturnal operations.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Two tons of various types of narcotics discovered in clashes with drug traffickers were set on fire by Tehran’s Law Enforcement Police here on Saturday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Visiting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday rejected the US accusations that his country is supporting Shiite militias who fight US troops in Iraq.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran is set to purchase 100 Russian Topolov-204 and Topolov-214 planes over the next 10 years.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will oversee the signing of agreements to strengthen economic ties with Iraq on Monday on the second day of his landmark trip to Baghdad.

TEHRAN (FNA)- A military strike against Iran would be unlikely to succeed and would only inflame tensions in the Middle East, an influential group of British MPs warned on Sunday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- The first Comoran Ambassador to Tehran Ahmad Mujib Al-Mazouqi submitted a copy of his credentials to Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki here Saturday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s Ambassador to Tanzania said his country does not want confrontation with the West on its nuclear program, and called on members of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), including Tanzania, to intervene.

KABUL, March 2 (Xinhua) — Following Taliban outfit’s threat to target mobile phone companies’ towers in Taliban-held areas, the second boasting tower of ROSHAN mobile phone firm was destroyed in Afghanistan’s troubled Helmand province, locals said.

NEW YORK: Afghanistan’s Taliban knew that Britain’s Prince Harry had been deployed in their country to fight them and they had been gunning to get “an important chicken”, a leading US magazine reported on Sunday.