Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has urged neighboring Turkmenistan to cooperate in fighting terrorism and smuggling.

KABUL (AFP) – Two German police officers and a German foreign ministry employee were killed in the capital of Afghanistan on Wednesday, blown up in a bomb attack claimed by the militant Taliban movement. A fourth German was wounded in the attack, Germany’s biggest loss of life in the war-torn …

BAGRAMI, Afghanistan – Hundreds of U.S.-led troops have launched an offensive against al-Qaida and Taliban militants in an area of eastern Afghanistan where Osama bin Laden once hid, officials said Wednesday. A bomb attack near the capital, meanwhile, killed three German police officers assigned to protect their country’s embassy, and …