After days of negotiations, on Friday Ankara and Baghdad eventually signed a counterterrorism agreement targeting members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)

Kurdish rebels ambushed a minibus carrying pro-government village guards and civilians in southeastern Turkey and killed 12 people on Saturday, a local official said.

KABUL, Afghanistan – President Hamid Karzai offered to meet with the Taliban leader and give militants a government position, but a spokesman for the militant group on Sunday said it will “never” negotiate with Afghan authorities until U.S. and NATO forces leave the country.

KABUL (AFP) — Afghanistan’s Taliban have released four Red Cross workers, including two foreign nationals, captured near the capital four days ago, officials said Saturday.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Mohammad Ali Hosseini here on Saturday voiced Tehran’s opposition to the US Senate approval for creating three federal regions in Iraq, and described the measure as a blatant intervention in Iraq’s domestic affairs.

Iran’s first Vice-President Parviz Davoudi noted Iran’s efforts to develop relations with Kyrgyzstan, and expressed the hope that the two countries’ friendly ties would further expand in all the different areas in future.

Confronting internal threats is the main mission of the IRGC today, commander-in-chief of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) said here on Saturday, adding that his troops will, of course, rush to help the army in case of military threats to Iran by foreign counties.

Zimbabwean Foreign Minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi called on Iran to make investments in his country’s industrial and agricultural sectors and transfer the know-how for the manufacture of agricultural machineries and pesticides.

Ghana’s Foreign Minister Akwasi Asei-Adjei in a meeting with his Iranian counterpart Manouchehr Mottaki on the sidelines of the 62nd UN General Assembly meeting in New York voiced his country’s preparedness to develop relations with the Islamic Republic.

 Iceland’s Foreign Minister Ingibjorg Solrun Gisladottir voiced her country’s support for the current cooperation between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).