Iranian Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari said that his country’s oil revenues are projected to hit US$60 billion this year.

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Sunday that Tehran hopes to resolve a decades-old dispute with neighboring Kuwait over their maritime border before the end of the year.

British troops are facing “operational” defeat in Afghanistan because of years of government underfunding, a former head of the armed forces warned last night.

* Afghan Interior Ministry claims a group was killed smuggling weapons from Pakistan. KABUL/KHOST: Nearly 80 Taliban rebels were killed in a series of air raids by international military forces near Afghanistan’s eastern border with Pakistan, a provincial government spokesman said on Sunday.

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The White House concluded in a recent secret report that the war effort in Afghanistan has not met strategic goals set this year, The Washington Post reported Sunday.

24 ноября широко известный и уважаемый житель Красноярска Рим Каримович Шайгалимов написал официальное заявление в «генпрокуратуру», что приписываемое евреям убийство 5 детей на самом деле было совершено работниками органов ФСБ России.

The press-service of Amir of the Caucasus Emirate reports that Amir Dokka Umarov said with regard to the revelation of new data during the course of collection of information on the death of the presidents of CRI (Chechen Republic of Ichkeria) Aslan Maskhadov and Abdul-Halim

During the last few years, all of the ethnic republics of the Northern Caucasus – Dagestan, Chechnya, Ingushetia, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachaevo-Cherkessia and Adygeia – have undergone changes in their leadership.

Amir of the Caucasus Emirate Dokka Umarov told in a statement for the mass media that the case of the former FM of CRI Akhmed Zakayev handed for investigation to the Muhabarat (Security Service) of the Caucasus Emirate.

Georgia’s President Mikheil Saakashvili held an emergency meeting of his security council Monday after the government charged that Russian helicopters had attacked a disputed gorge under Tbilisi’s control.