A STRING of suicide attacks against Iraqi security forces has killed at least 37 people, including 28 when two bombers blew themselves up among recruits at an army base
THE Taliban have shot dead at least seven Afghan civilians whom they captured on suspicion of working for the government or other organisations, police and the militants said today
ISRAELI police have accused Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of fraud and said an investigation into alleged bribe-taking had been widened to look at whether he made duplicate claims for travel expenses
SEVEN people including a six-year-old boy were killed in Taliban-style bombings in Afghanistan today, including a suicide attack in the insurgency-hit south, officials said]]>
LEBANON and Syria have agreed to establish diplomatic relations, opening embassies in each others` capitals for the first time since their independence from colonial rule
IRAN has dismissed speculation that it risked being attacked by the United States over its contested nuclear drive, saying that a military strike would be "craziness"
IRANIAN police have arrested a man suspected of murdering a total of eight women, six of them in a spate of serial killings in Tehran`s satellite city Karaj
IRAN has hanged four people convicted of murder in the southern city of Dashtestan, the latest in a growing number of executions in the Islamic republic, a press report said today
