The security situation in the Balkans is positive and extremism has been marginalised in nearly all countries in the region, NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said Thursday evening (June 28th) at the opening of the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council Security Forum in Ohrid. He urged authorities to remain on alert …

Affirming his country’s support for Turkey’s EU bid, a senior Portuguese official said on Thursday (June 28th) that the goal of accession talks with Ankara is full membership, rather than a privileged partnership.

Seventeen journalists in Macedonia were awarded 100,000 euros in damages earlier this month as a landmark wiretapping case wound up at the Skopje Criminal Court. The plaintiffs had charged the state with conducting illegal wiretaps in 1999 and 2000.

Baghdad (AFP) US and Iraqi forces, backed by helicopters, killed 26 militants suspected of links to “Iranian terror networks” in raids in the Baghdad Shiite district of Sadr City Saturday, the US military said.

THE HARD-LINE regime of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been frightening neighbors with its meddling-by-proxy in Iraq, Lebanon, and Gaza.

The U.S. and its allies are reviewing a proposal that would commit the U.N. Security Council to hold off on new sanctions on Iran if the country stops further development of its uranium enrichment program, diplomats said Friday.

Only a single day after fuel rationing was announced by the mullahs’ regime, more than fifty gas stations were set ablaze by the angry and frustrated Iranian people in various cities of Golestan, Khorasan, Khuzestan, Isfahan, Mazandaran, Golestan, as well as East and West Azerbaijan Provinces.

On June 30, tens of thousands of Iranians will gather in Paris to state their solidarity with the nationwide uprising of Iranian people against the mullahs’ regime and to express their dismay over the EU Council decision for continuing defiance of the European Court of Justice’s verdict to remove the …

The Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was under pressure to perform a U-turn on petrol rationing yesterday after the restriction prompted violent protests at filling stations across the country this week.

The EU has kept Iran opposition group PMOI on its new list of terrorist entities in a controversial move likely to spark complaints from MEPs as well as Danish and Italian parliamenterians.