Tehran, Nov 18 (Xinhua) Iran has said it will not oppose Turkey's mediation in possible future talks between the Islamic nation and the US under its new president Barack Obama.
'We will certainly not create any obstacles in the way of such moves,' Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hassan Qashqavi said Monday, Iranian Press TV reported.
Turkish […]
Tel Aviv/Gaza City, Nov 16 (DPA) Israel killed four Palestinians in an airstrike near Gaza City Sunday morning, hours after Palestinians launched rockets at Israeli border towns.
In a further indication that a five-month-old truce between Israel and the Gaza militias is fast collapsing, Israeli Premier Ehud Olmert said he has ordered the military to submit […]
Tel Aviv, Nov 16 (DPA) In response to a resumption of Palestinian rocket attacks against Israel, Defence Minister Ehud Barak Saturday threatened a military offensive in the Gaza Strip.
'It is possible that the time will come in which a large calculated military operation will be necessary,' he said in a speech in the coastal city […]
Baghdad, Nov 15 (DPA) Two explosions in different parts of Iraq Saturday killed 14 people and left scores injured.
In Baghdad, five people were killed and 20 were wounded when a car bomb went off near the National Theater in the al-Karada neighbourhood, police said.
Earlier, a car bomb left at least nine people dead and 28 […]
Baghdad, Nov 13 (DPA) An Iraqi soldier Wednesday killed four US soldiers and wounded three others after an altercation west of the town of Mosul, 400 km north of Baghdad.
A security source told DPA that the 'Iraqi soldier opened fire on a group of US soldiers after an angry dispute. The Iraqi soldier died in […]
Baghdad, Nov 11 (DPA) In a continuation of the string of bombings that have rocked Iraq since the beginning of the week, three people were killed and more than 40 civilians were wounded Tuesday.
The Iraqi capital, Baghdad, was the scene of three bomb attacks, that left three dead and 23 injured.
A bomb went off near […]
Gaza City, Nov 11 (DPA) Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak late Monday ordered resumed shipments of 'limited' amounts of industrial diesel fuel into the Gaza Strip, after six days in which the territory's border crossings were sealed.
Diesel for Gaza City's main power plant would be allowed into the strip starting Tuesday, defence officials said.
A decision […]
Doha, Nov 10 (IANS) India and Qatar signed two deals on defence and security cooperation and discussed means to enhance economic and energy ties following Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's arrival here, the first by an Indian prime minister to this Gulf nation.
Manmohan Singh, who arrived here Sunday evening from Oman on the last leg […]
Doha, Nov 9 (IANS) India and Qatar signed two agreements on defence and security cooperation as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived in this Gulf nation Sunday evening on the last leg of his two-nation Gulf tour.
The defence agreement includes the issue of maritime security among others while the agreement on security and law enforcement covers […]
Muscat, Nov 9 (IANS) Indian, Pakistani or people of various other nationalities might be behind the wheels of taxis in major cities of the Gulf. But not so in the Omani capital.
Muscat's taxis are operated only by nationals wearing the 'dishdasha', the traditional Arabic robe, and are proof of a successful Omanisation drive by the […]
