August, 2007

• 20 August

  10 Taliban said killed in base attack

  KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AFP) – Dozens of Taliban fighters attacked an Afghan military base in restive southern Afghanistan but pulled out after losing 10 of their fighters, an official said Monday. The rebels left their dead comrades on the battlefield and “escaped after tough resistance” Sunday night at the base in …

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• 20 August

  German captive freed in Afghanistan

  KABUL, Afghanistan – Four suspected kidnappers were captured Monday as Afghan police freed a German aid worker who had been snatched from a restaurant while she ate with her husband, officials said.Hundreds of police freed the 31-year-old woman in a raid after midnight in western Kabul, not far from the …

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• 19 August

  5 IRGC Troops Killed in Chopper Crash in Northwestern Iran

  Five members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) were killed during a crash of an army helicopter in the region of Kouh-Ghandil in the vicinity of the city of Piranshahr in northwestern Iran.

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• 19 August

  Iran Arrests 90 Int’l Drug Traffickers

  An Iranian police official here Saturday said that the law enforcement anti-drug squad has arrested an international band of drug traffickers in Tehran, saying that the gang, which included 85 African drug traffickers, has been totally disbanded.

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• 19 August

  Hijackers Surrender

  The men who hijacked a Turkish plane Saturday morning surrendered themselves to the Turkish officials later in the day.

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• 19 August

  Iraqi PM to Visit Syria to Discuss Security Issues

  Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is due to discuss security, political and economic issues with Syrian officials during a three-day visit to Damascus starting from Monday, a Syrian official said.

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• 19 August

  Iranian Gov’t Supports Muslim Investors

  Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi said that government encourages and supports foreign investments in Iran, specially by Muslim countries, adding that the world of Islam is in need of such participation and partnership.

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• 19 August

  Quake Hits Southern Iran

  An earth tremor measuring 3.4 on the Richter scale jolted the city of Khonj in Iran’s southern province of Fars on Saturday.

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• 19 August

  Iran Denounces Hijacking of Turkish Plane

  Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Mohammed Ali Hosseini Saturday denounced the hijacking of a Turkish passenger plane this morning, saying that the Islamic Republic would not issue the landing permission for the hijacked plane under any conditions.

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• 19 August

  Gov’t Spokesman Scoffs at US Efforts to Blacklist IRGC

  Iranian Government Spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham described as baseless and unfounded the recent words and efforts made by the US to list Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terror group, saying that nobody in the world would buy such worthless words.

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