Speaking to reporters in a joint press conference with his Palestinian counterpart Sa’eed Seyam, Pour-Mohammadi expressed pleasure with the visit to Tehran by his Palestinian counterpart, and reiterated that Iran has always paid special attention to the Palestinian issue.

Amirul Momineen (Master of the FAithful Believers) – Imam Ali (A.S.) – was martyred on 21st Ramazan 40 A.H. by an assassin who

Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei warned that the enemies of Muslims are trying to turn the “war of people with occupiers” into a “war of people with people” in Iraq and Palestine.

BAGHDAD (AP) — Suspected Shiite gunmen, some dressed as police, broke into a television station and gunned down 11 executives, producers and other staffers Thursday — the deadliest attack against the media in Iraq, where at least 81 journalists have been killed in the past three years.

LONDON (AP) — The detention of terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay is unacceptable and counterproductive, Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett said Thursday, underlining an increasingly critical British line on the US camp in Cuba.

GAZA CITY   (AFP) — 8 Palestinians, including a teenage boy and three Hamas fighters, were killed by Israeli fire in the Gaza Strip on Thursday as troops mounted a fresh incursion as part of a four-month offensive. The violence — at a time of increased tensions between rival Palestinian factions …

VIENNA — North Korea says it wants to talk. Ditto Iran. So why is America saying no? Some experts say that direct talks with Pyongyang and Tehran might be the only option the US has left to defuse the world’s two most pressing nuclear crises. But for the Americans, the …

DUBAI (AP) — A handful of US diplomats here on Iran’s doorstep have quietly reopened an Iran-focused diplomatic mission, the first such office since the US embassy in Tehran was taken over by radical students 27 years ago. The low-key Iran Regional Presence Office, which sits inside the US consulate …

RAMALLAH — A Palestinian festival showcasing women filmmakers has battled against Israeli closures, rampant insecurity, recession and funding shortages to promote cinema in Gaza and the West Bank. “It’s hard to work in films here,” said Alia Arasoughly, who runs Shashat, a non-profit organisation focusing on women’s cinema which is …

FATA BORNO  (AP) — A 10-year-old boy huddled behind African Union soldiers as half a dozen pickup trucks full of armed Arab militiamen screeched through the dusty riverbed outside his North Darfur refugee camp Wednesday. “These Janjaweed aren’t the most dangerous ones,” Najmaddin Idriss whispered as he stood behind the …