Iran’s crude oil revenues in the last Iranian calendar year reached $60b – with oil exports making up $51.15b of the mentioned amount.

At the end of his one-day working visit to Turkey, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki left Ankara for the Syrian capital of Damascus on Tuesday.

By Terry Friel KABUL (Reuters) – As the bloodshed in Afghanistan worsens, the Taliban are increasingly targeting civilians, the New York-based Human Rights Watch said in a new report on Monday. The group accuses the Taliban and other insurgents of war crimes in its latest report, “The Human Cost.” “Suicide …