Five US soldiers have been killed in an attack on a patrol in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, the US military has said.

The Iranian government’s last-minute decision to ration monthly fuel allotments, as well as increase the price of gas, triggered protests and riots — a rarity in the Islamic republic — according to Iranian media reports.

Financier Ashraf Marwan, 62, the son-in-law of former Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser, had been named by Israeli officials as a source for the country’s intelligence service Mossad. Scotland Yard is treating his death in Carlton House Terrace as “unexplained”.

The Egyptian government announced plans on Thursday to ban all female circumcision, the widely-practised removal of the clitoris which just days ago cost the life of a 12-year-old girl.

Presa londoneză continuă criticile la adresa Raportului Comisiei Europene privind Bulgaria şi România. Ideea generală este că Raportul a fost prea blând cu ambele ţări.

Unrest spread in Tehran on Thursday, the second day of gasoline rationing in oil-rich Iran, with drivers lining up for miles, gas stations being set on fire and state-run banks and business centers coming under attack.

Associated Press, Brussels, Belgium — European Union governments decided Thursday to keep an Iranian opposition group blacklisted as a terrorist organization after reviewing its demand to be removed following a recent court ruling, diplomats said.

Rajavi: Continuing defiance of the Court verdict to maintain and a foolhardy reward to the mullahs that amounts to participating in the suppression of the Iranian people.

The Arabic daily Al-Seyassah reported On Thursday According to reliable sources  a confidential letter that reached Hizbullah leader Nasrallah,  from the Iranian ambassador in Damascus led to the last minute coup against a compromise formula to solve the Lebanese crisis, that has been reached between the Secretary-General of the Arab …

Admiral Michael McConnell, the U.S. director of national intelligence in an interview said there is “overwhelming evidence” that Tehran is supporting insurgents in Iraq and “compelling” evidence that the same is happening in Afghanistan.