The United States lacks the needed potentials and capabilities to take more military actions and engineer the international system, a strategy expert said here on Monday, adding that the US republicans are casting skin.

Iran on Sunday termed the international conference on Iraq’s security held in Baghdad the previous day as “serious and constructive” and said it had prepared the ground for future talks at minister level.

At least nine policemen have been killed by a bomb in the western Afghan province of Farah, officials say. They say the roadside bomb exploded as the police were travelling to the district of Bakwa. The dead included a local district police chief who had only recently been appointed to …