President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said here Wednesday that the country is more than ever in need of the culture of martyrdom, self-sacrifice and appreciation of martyrs, war veterans and the disabled.

Minister of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics Brigadier General Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar conferred on Wednesday in Yerevan with Armenian Prime Minister Serzh Sarkisian on expansion of mutual cooperation between the two countries.

KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 7 — The death toll from a suicide bombing in northern Afghanistan rose to 52 on Wednesday, making it the worst single suicide bombing in the country since 2001, government officials said. Among the dead were 18 schoolchildren, four teachers and six members of Parliament, including one …