KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – When it comes to his views on Canada’s presence in Afghanistan, it’s like father like son for the new mullah in the Arghandab district north of Kandahar city.

Iraq’s neighbors and other Arab countries gathered Saturday to discuss the future of the war-torn country — but the crisis involving Kurdish separatist rebels along the border between Iraq and Turkey threatened to overshadow the event.

Iran would be ready to join a body that would provide enriched uranium for users in the Middle East, an Iranian official said, after Saudi Arabia proposed it as a way to defuse Tehran’s nuclear row with the West, Reuters repoted.