March, 2007

• 5 March

  No Agreement on UN Sanctions for Iran

  Major powers failed to settle all their differences over a second UN sanctions resolution against Iran for its nuclear work but remain committed to passing one soon, the United States said.

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• 5 March

  Obama: US Iraq Strategy Strengthen Iran

  Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Friday blamed Bush administration failings in Iraq.

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• 5 March

  Iran, Cuba Underline Educational Cooperation

  Visiting chancellor of Havana University and chairman of the Iranian parliament’s Training and Research Commission in a meeting here in Tehran on Sunday explored avenues for cooperation between the two countries’ scientific and research centers.

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• 5 March

  Weapons from Iran-Iraq War Fuel Unrests

  Mud roads crisscross green hills between palm groves. Snowcapped mountains rise in the distance across the Iranian border. Donkeys stroll along footpaths, carrying the region’s harvest – land mines.

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• 4 March

  Afghanistan: A job half done

  By Lyse Doucet ‘Karzai is often blamed for making poor choices’ In December 2001, a new future for Afghanistan was mapped out at an international conference in Bonn, beginning with an interim government to replace the Taleban. This week we look at how much has changed since then. Five years …

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• 4 March

  US troops kill Afghan civilians

  US troops kill Afghan civilians Local people accused the US soldiers of targeting civilians An incident described by US forces in Afghanistan as a “complex ambush” has left 16 civilians dead. The incident occurred on the road from the eastern city of Jalalabad to Pakistan when a suicide bomber targeted …

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• 4 March

  Syria hopeful over outcome of meeting

  Syria is relatively hopeful an international meeting aimed at stabilising Iraq will succeed, but much depends on the attitude of the US, Vice-President Farouq al-Shara was quoted yesterday as saying.

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• 4 March

  Talabani to leave hospital soon: envoy

  Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, in hospital in Jordan suffering from exhaustion and dehydration, will be discharged in two or three days, Baghdad’s ambassador in Amman said yesterday.

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• 4 March

  Iraq vows to avenge massacre of police

  BAGHDAD: Iraqi forces yesterday launched a mission to kill or capture the Al Qaeda insurgents who kidnapped 14 policemen, slit their throats and then boasted about it on the Internet.

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• 4 March

  Tokyo appeal to Tehran

  Japan yesterday urged Iran to drop its uranium enrichment programme, warning it faced international isolation if it failed to do so. Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso told an Iranian envoy here Tehran must

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