GHAZNI, Afghanistan – Taliban militants agreed Tuesday to release 19 South Korean church volunteers held hostage for six weeks after Seoul reaffirmed a pledge to withdraw its troops by year’s end and prevent Christian missionaries from working in Afghanistan.The militants apparently backed away from demands for a prisoner exchange. But …

KABUL (Reuters) – More than 100 suspected insurgents were killed in a battle with U.S.-led troops in southern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said on Wednesday.The battle erupted after a convoy of Afghan and U.S. coalition forces came under attack in Shah Wali Kot district in Kandahar province, it said in …

Iranian Parliament Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel stressed here on Monday that Tehran would never give up even an iota of its nuclear rights.

Iranian Foreign Ministry summoned caretaker of Sweden’s embassy in Tehran on Monday to condemn printing of a blasphemous photo of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) in a Swedish daily.

The United Nations’ residing coordinator in the Islamic Republic of Iran stressed that the US sanctions against Tehran could not prevent the world body from cooperating with Iran.

The United States is not in a position to threaten the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a prominent Iranian lawmaker said, reminding that IRGC is a powerful force with millions of members and supporters.

South Korea’s outgoing Ambassador to Iran Eim Hung-Jee noted the growth in the two countries’ industrial and economic exchanges, and underlined that Seoul attaches much significance to the expansion and reinvigoration of ties with Tehran.

The second meeting of the sports ministers of Asian countries will be held in Iran in 2008.

Political advisor to the former Iraqi prime minister said plots to overthrow Nuri al-Maliki’s government are doomed to failure as the Iraqi administration is now enjoying stability more than ever.

Despite West’s sanctions against the country, Iranian experts of the South Pars Technical Repair and Maintenance Company (TMC) succeeded in repairing two turbo-generators of the second refinery of the South Pars Oil and Gas Field (phases 2 and 3).