Middle Orient

Germany’s ambassador to Tehran appreciated the Islamic Republic, on behalf of his country’s officials, for setting the German citizen, Donald Kline, free.

Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Secretary Ali Larijani stressed that any military aggression against his country wouldn’t go without a response.

We are seeking to establish unity among all Shiite and Sunni tribes, the official in charge of the Lebanese Islamic Amal Front said.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stressed his people’s insistence on the right to access civilian nuclear technology, saying that Iran will eventually gain its rights.

Tehran said it could negotiate a solution to its dispute with Russia about building Iran first nuclear power plant, and Moscow promised to keep the project alive.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AFP) — Three suicide bombers struck southern Afghanistan Tuesday, leaving four people dead and about a dozen wounded, police and the British military said.The deadliest attack was in the border town of Spin Boldak, where a man with explosives strapped to his body blew himself up in the …

KABUL, Afghanistan – At least six people were killed Wednesday in an explosion caused by gunpowder in shops selling ammunition for hunting rifles, police said. Nine others were injured, and the blast gouged a huge crater into the neighborhood. Police, soldiers and crying relatives used their hands and shovels to …

 Military strategy has to be combined with political and development strategy in Afghanistan’s violence-torn south and south-eastern provinces, the top United Nations peacekeeping official said today. “It is essential to combine the three,” Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Jean-Marie Guéhenno told a news conference in Kabul, the capital, at the end …

The speaker of the lower house of Afghanistan‘s parliament defended his country’s newly passed amnesty bill on Monday, saying it was misinterpreted in the West. “Unfortunately certain elements have embarked on propaganda against it,” Mohammad Yunus Qanooni told reporters after a meeting with NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer …

A prominent Iranian MP described Bushehr nuclear power plant as a symbol of Iran-Russia cooperation, warning that any delay in the construction and launch of operation of the plant serves the interests of those opposing expansion of Tehran-Moscow ties.