Iran’s Defense Minister Brigadier General Mostafa Mohammad Najjar said that his country has started industrial manufacture of its indigenous Azarakhsh fighter jet which conducted a successful test flight yesterday.

Iraqi leaders are due to convene in a session in the near future to explore possible ways to end the present crisis, resolve the problems and revise the country’s Constitution.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, heading a high-ranking delegation, left Tehran for Algeria this morning.

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani on Monday said he hoped for the success of talks between Iran and the United States on establishing security and stability in Iraq.

A Christian opposition candidate narrowly won a by-election to Lebanon’s parliament in a result that seemed set to further complicate a 9-month-old political crisis.  In the latest showdown between Prime Minister Fouad Siniora’s Western-backed government and its opponents, tens of thousands of Lebanese voted in by-elections on Sunday triggered by …

Sources close to the Turkish military say the military did not look warmly to the idea of a joint covert operation with the Americans to capture PKK leaders in northern Iraq because they felt even the gossip of such a plan would be leaked and would drive the terrorist leadership …

(CBS/AP) Iran and the United States will meet in Baghdad today to discuss ways to ease Iraq’s security problems, Tehran’s ambassador to Baghdad said.

The June split in Palestine and the subsequent hostile take over that occurred in the Gaza strip was a predictable and expected outcome if you were following recent events in the region. It seems as though efforts to sabotage the nascent alliance between Fatah and Hamas were rearing their ugly …

Iran on Sunday successfully test flied its second home-made fighter jet called ‘Azarakhsh’ (lightning).

Iranian Parliament Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel stressed the need for Muslims to counter religious radicalism, oppression and injustice in the world, describing injustice of great powers as the root cause of extremism and terrorism in the region.