Turkey and Iraq agreed to try to end the presence of a Kurdish rebel group in Iraq, Turkey’s prime minister told a news conference Tuesday, while four more US soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq as US troop levels reached an all-time high of about 162,000. “We …

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, heading a high-ranking delegation, is scheduled to arrive here in Tehran on Wednesday.

Iranian Parliament Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel called on Afghan people, parliaments and government to confront petrification and extremism in that country.