TEHRAN (FNA) – Iranian Deputy Interior Minister Hojjatollah Ayoubi said on Sunday that the current status of Iranian women and their significant advancement in the country has made them a good model for countries in the region.

TEHRAN (FNA) – Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei pardoned a large number of prisoners as Iran celebrates the 29th anniversary of its Islamic Revolution.

TEHRAN (FNA) – Iranians in Tehran and various other cities staged massive rallies to mark the 29th anniversary of the victory of the Islamic Revolution on Monday.

TEHRAN (FNA) – South Korea will deliver 16 oil tankers to Iran in 2008, while the time for delivery of domestically built tankers is not certain.

KABUL, Feb 10: Afghanistan said on Sunday it backed a senior US official’s assertion that Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and Taliban chief Mullah Mohammad Omar were operating from Pakistan.

MUNICH, Germany (AFP) — US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has warned that the failure of the international force in Afghanistan would increase the security threat to Europe.

BAGHDAD – Growing impatience with the slow pace of work to improve basic services like electricity and water could threaten security gains in Iraq’s Anbar province, a former al Qaeda stronghold, the U.S. military said on Sunday.

BEIRUT – A leading member of Lebanon’s anti-Syrian governing coalition on Sunday warned of anarchy and raised the specter of war in the country, which is suffering its worst political crisis since the 1975-90 civil war.

MUNICH, Germany – Russia said on Sunday that Europe risked opening a “Pandora’s box” if it went ahead and recognized the independence of the breakaway Serbian province of Kosovo.

RACAK, Serbia – The massacre of 44 Kosovo Albanians by Serb security forces in this village nine years ago is a reminder of why Kosovo deserves independence from Serbia, says the U.S. diplomat who reported it to the world.