TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi said security concerns are among the main root causes of ECO’s lack of progress in establishing a positive regional convergence.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Expediency Council Chairman Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said that radical prejudice has unfortunately turned into the root cause of some incidents in Iraq. Speaking in a meeting with a number of leaders of Iraqi Sunni and Shiite nomads here on Tuesday, Rafsanjani, noted the role of …

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- The meeting of the Interior Ministers of the Economic Cooperation Organization’s 11 member states kicked off work here on Wednesday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Deputy Foreign Minister assured that the United Nations Security Council draft resolution on Iran won’t be approved by the member states.

A far-right faction opposed to relinquishing occupied land joined Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s governing coalition on Monday, a partnership likely to complicate any peace efforts with the Palestinians.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) — The killings of two Americans took the monthly US death toll in Iraq on Monday to over 100 for the first time in nearly two years, just a week before elections that could cost President George W. Bush’s Republicans control of Congress.

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani helicopter gunships destroyed a religious school allegedly fronting as an Al Qaeda training camp on Monday, killing up to 80 people in the country’s deadliest-ever military operation targeting suspected “terrorists”.

KHARTOUM (Reuters) — Islamists challenging the authority of Somalia’s interim government said they would not proceed with a third round of peace talks on Monday unless Ethiopian troops were withdrawn from the chaotic country.

KUWAIT (AFP) — The emir of Kuwait Monday urged MPs and the government to cooperate in fighting corruption as he opened the new term of parliament where the opposition has gained control following June elections.

ALGIERS (Reuters) — Two people were killed and 17 wounded when Algerian rebels set off truck bombs outside two police stations east of Algiers in their most elaborate attack in years, witnesses said on Monday.