TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran explores prospective fields in the southern part of the Caspian and if any field is discovered the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) main export oil pipeline could be one of the variants for oil export, an Iranian Energy Ministry official said.  Mahmud Khaqani, the head of the Department …

 The Iraqi prime minister has announced the killing of al-Qaeda chief in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.   Nuri al-Maliki announced the killing of Jordanian-born Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the head of an organisation known as al-Qaeda in the Land of Two Rivers, at a news conference in Baghdad broadcast live by Iraqi state and …

GAZA (Reuters) — The Fateh faction of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the Hamas group agreed on Wednesday to halt their clashes even as they headed for a showdown over Abbas’s threat to hold a referendum on a statehood proposal. Violence flared at the Gaza border with Israel as Israeli …