BAGHDAD — Starved of entertainment in their violence-racked city, many Baghdad residents are turning to food as one of their few remaining pleasures, and paying the price as they pile on the pounds.

The United States administration officially named former retired NATO commander Joseph W. Ralston as the U.S. Envoy to coordinate efforts to fight the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad recently forwarded a letter to the German Chancellor Angela Merkel. This was President Ahmadinejad’s