KABUL (AFP) – Talks between Afghanistan and Pakistan ended Sunday with calls to eliminate terrorist sanctuaries in their respective tribal regions and to fight the opium trade financing Islamic militants.Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, addressing 700 tribal delegates at the end of a landmark “peace jirga” aimed at defeating the common …

KABUL, Afghanistan – Working to soothe relations with neighboring Afghanistan, Pakistan’s president said Sunday that a “particularly dark form” of terrorism confronts the region, while tribal leaders called for engaging in dialogue with the Taliban to confront extremism.Speaking at the close of a four-day meeting of tribal leaders meant to …

Afghanistan’s Taliban has decided not to free any of 21 South Korean hostages despite earlier saying two women could go, the Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported Sunday citing an insurgents’ spokesman.

Afghanistan’s Taliban said Saturday it has freed two women among 21 South Korean hostages captured more than three weeks ago by the hardline militia. Two spokesman for the insurgents said both women were ill and had been freed unconditionally as a “gesture of goodwill,” just hours after the conclusion of …

GHAZNI, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Afghanistan’s Taliban said on Saturday they had freed two female South Korean hostages, but local and national government officials said they had no knowledge of such a release. “Today at 6.30 pm (1330 GMT), we released two of the female Korean hostages who were seriously ill, …

Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei viewed deployment of occupying troops as the most important problem of Iraq, and further called on Iraqi Sunnis, Shiites, Arabs and Kurds to show enhanced unity and Solidarity.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki described the results of his visit to Iran as excellent.

An earthquake measuring 4.3 on the Richter scale jolted the city of Bojnourd in the northeastern Iranian province of Northern Khorassan.

Iraq is still in need of Iran’s humanitarian aids to fight against terrorism, Iraqi government spokesman stressed on Thursday.

Tehran’s provisional Friday Prayers leader Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said the United States’ efforts to get rid of its humiliating situation in Iraq and Afghanistan would lead to nowhere unless it revises its wrong policies and attracts Iran’s positive view and assistance.