Eurasia Press & News

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday that key Arab nations, including Syria, would be invited to President Bush’s planned Mideast peace conference this fall and expressed hope they would attend. Formal invitations haven’t been issued yet but Rice said it “would be natural” for Syria, Saudi Arabia and 10 …

Anti-Syrian lawmakers rattled by last week’s assassination of one of their colleagues took refuge in a heavily guarded hotel Monday, a day before the deeply divided parliament convenes to elect a president.

In his outward persona at least, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad came to this country to lessen hostility toward himself and to defend Iran, not to rabble-rouse and provoke hatred. Whether he succeeded remains an open question.

UNITED NATIONS (AFP) – Eighteen countries meet here Sunday to review six years of efforts to spur reconstruction and good governance in Afghanistan at a time when the restive country is beset by a resurgent Taliban insurgency and soaring opium output.Afghan President Hamid Karzai and UN chief Ban Ki-moon are …

Iranian defense industries succeeded in building a Radar-evading drone with the speed of 700 km per hour, a senior Iranian army official said Saturday.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is due to pay a visit to Brazil next week.

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki and his Egyptian counterpart Ahmed Ali Aboul Gheit are likely to meet each other on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York this week, a senior Egyptian official said Saturday.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Saturday felicitated Guinea-Bissau’s president, government and nation on the country’s Independence Day.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a message on Saturday extended his congratulations to Saudi king, government and nation on the country’s national day.

Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Mostafa Mohammad Najjar here Saturday said Iranian armed forces will give the most crushing response to any kind of threat.