Eurasia Press & News

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is due to leave Tehran for Baku, Azerbaijan on a two-day visit starting on Wednesday.

Iranian Parliament Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel said that Iranian nation will not allow the US to stage a coup de tat similar to what it did in Iran in 1963.

The decisions made by certain countries against Tehran can never block Iran’s progress and development, the country’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Mohammad Ali Hosseini said on Sunday.

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 …

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 …

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.

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.

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

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.

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.