Eurasia Press & News

TEHRAN (FNA)- An earthquake measuring 4.1 degrees on the Richter scale jolted south of Shahreza city, 80 kilometers south of Isfahan on Wednesday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- The state-run Iranian Petroleum Engineering and Development Company (IPEDC) and the National Iranian Drilling Company (NIDC) have signed a contract for drilling 12 wells in the massive Kish gas field.

UNTIED NATIONS: The Security Council has extended the mandate of the UN mission in Afghanistan by one year, giving the world body central role in coordinating humanitarian activities being carried out by various bodies in the war-ravaged country.

Ex-Soviet Moldova wants major powers to sign a declaration guaranteeing its neutrality, its president said, a step that could ease the way for a peace deal over its breakway Transdniestria region.

Azerbaijani and ethnic Armenian forces exchanged more gunfire near the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh over the weekend, killing two civilians and at least two soldiers, officials said Monday.

Kavkaz Center’s editorial staff received an e-mail containing a statement signed by Huzeifa, a deputy of the Amir of the Jamaat Kataib al-Hawl (Wilayah Iriston, the Emirate of Caucasus).

Kavkaz Center’s sources in Wilayah of Dagestan of the Caucasus Emirate reported that command of Temir-Khan-Shura sector of Degestani Front of Armed Forces of CE (Seyfullah unit) confirmed martyrdom of an operative unit of Mujahideen during a fierce gun battle that took place on  Friday 6 Rabi‘ al-Awwal 1429 (14.03.2008) …

According to Kavkaz Center’s three Mujahideen were martyred (inshaAllah) in a hostile incident on 8 Rabi‘ al-Awwal 1429 (16.03.2008) in Vedeno district of Wilayah Nokhchicho of the Caucasus Emirate.

Kavkaz Center’s source from Wilayah of Nokhchicho (Ichkeria) of the Caucasus Emirate reported about an ambush of a group of murtadin and kuffar made by a mobile team of near the village of Olhazar-Kotar (Alhazurovo) on 13 Rabi’ Al-Awwal 1429 (20 March 2008).

KABUL, Afghanistan – Vice President Dick Cheney met with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday to discuss ways the country’s fragile government as it faces rising threats from al-Qaida and Taliban militants.