The United Arab Emirates’ Foreign Minister Abdallah bin Zayid al-Nuhayyan viewed establishment of security as Iraq’s top priority.

Iranians are faithful people who wish peace, justice and welfare for the entire mankind, Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in Manoujan in the central province of Kerman on the second leg of his 28th tour of the different provinces of the country.

Iran’s visiting Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki Wednesday met with the President of the United Arab Emirates Khalifa bin Zayid al-Nuhayyan and discussed bilateral ties and regional cooperation.

Oil Minister Kazem Vaziri Hamaneh said on Wednesday that Iran is entitled to diversity in using renewable energy sources and that it is determined to materialize such a right.

An international conference will seek solutions to the Iraq conflict on Thursday but possible talks between US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki could grab the limelight.

The United States looks likely to meet with some of its staunchest Mideast foes – Syria and Iran – at a summit of leaders that begins in Egypt Thursday, in an effort to ease regional tensions.

By FISNIK ABRASHI, Associated Press Villagers trickled back to their damaged farms, descending from the hills with their belongings in bundles or on donkeys Tuesday after a NATO operation in their valley killed some 75 suspected Taliban fighters. The latest salvo in the alliance’s campaign to win control of southern …

By ALISA TANG, Associated Press Afghans can no longer accept or understand civilian deaths from international military operations, President Hamid Karzai said Wednesday after officials said 51 villagers were killed during a U.S.-led offensive against the Taliban in western Afghanistan. Despite claims that women and children were among the dead, …

AFP – Investigations into a US-led offensive in western Afghanistan at the weekend found around 50 civilians were killed, officials said Wednesday, as President Hamid Karzai summoned the top US general over the casualties. The US-led coalition has said it is not aware of any civilian deaths following the offensive, …

KABUL, Afghanistan — Faizal Karim, a sophomore at the National Military Academy here, stood outside a classroom holding his English-language homework assignment. For a group of cadets nearby, a lecture in physics was ending. Bright-eyed, articulate and in a four-year course modeled after the United States Military Academy at West …