BAGHDAD – A senior Turkish envoy arrived in Baghdad on Wednesday to hold talks with Iraqi officials about Turkey’s incursion into northern Iraq to fight Kurdish guerrillas, an Iraqi government source said.

KABUL, Afghanistan – A roadside bomb killed two Polish soldiers patrolling in eastern Afghanistan, officials said Wednesday, while NATO announced the seizure of $400 million in opium in the south.

First Vice President Parviz Davoodi and Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim al-Thani here Wednesday stressed the need for further expanding ties between the two countries at all levels.