TEHRAN (FNA)- Tajikistan President Emomali Rahmon has called on the members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization to accept Iran’s membership bid.

PARIS (Reuters) – Ministers will pledge funds for Afghanistan and review their development strategy for the fragile Central Asian state at a donors conference which got underway in Paris on Thursday. More than six years after U.S.-led forces ousted the Taliban regime that sheltered al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, …

(Reuters) – Afghanistan meets international donors on Thursday in Paris, where President Hamid Karzai will ask for $50 billion to fund a development plan that his government has drawn up. Here is a breakdown of current national deployments within the 40-nation NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan, which …

PARIS (Reuters) – Britain will provide about 600 million pounds ($1.17 billion) in reconstruction aid to Afghanistan through 2012/2013, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said on Thursday. “In the period up to 2012/13, the U.K. will be committing about 600 million pounds to the Afghan reconstruction effort,” Miliband told reporters …

GAZA (Reuters) – Israeli forces killed one Palestinian militant near a border crossing with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Thursday, medical workers said. Gunmen from al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, an armed wing of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction, and another militant group attacked an Israeli army position near the Erez …

Visiting Iraqi Defense Minister Lieutenant General Abdul Qadir Mohammed Jassim Obeidi conferred on Sunday with his Iranian counterpart Brigadier General Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar on expansion of defense cooperation between the two countries.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday that he hopes the Iraqi government, by relying on the prudence of its government and unity among its ethnic leaders and political wings, will successfully overcome the present sensitive situation.

The sources of the Russian invaders reported that Friday night Jumada Al-Akhirah 2, 1429 (June 6, 2008) near the village of Eha-Borze (Assinovskaya) a sabotage unit of the Caucasus Armed Forces (Mujahideen) ambushed a motorcade of the ringleader of the pro-Russian gang called Sunzha District Police, Shamil Kutsayev, where a …

Representatives of Chechen refugees in Azerbaijan reported that in the afternoon on June 5 an armed unit of Azerbaijani police raided a house of Chechen refugees, which they have been renting for a long time, and took away a 60-year-old man, the head of the household, an invalid with the …

The sources of Russian invaders reported that a car with ringleader of the gang called Sunzha District Police, Shamil Kutsayev, was blown up in Sunzha District of the Province of Ichkeria on Friday. The incident occurred on the Caucasus Motorway (“Kavkaz”) near the Assinovskaya-Sernovodsk intersection. The Murtad (apostate) and two …