GHAZNI, Afghanistan (AFP) – Two South Korean women freed by Afghanistan’s Taliban began Tuesday to make the long journey home, where their families spoke of their joy but worried over the fate of 19 other Pale, tearful and clutching Muslim headscarves, the women were handed over to international aid agency …

Iraq’s Prime Minister, Nouri Maliki, has called for a summit of the nation’s main political factions in an attempt to break Iraq’s political paralysis. 

Within the last four days, Pakistan’s President General Pervez Musharraf has welcomed more than 600 Afghan and Pakistani tribal leaders in a joint peace meeting to find solutions for the problems of violence and instability in both side of the Pakistani-Afghan border.