AL-RAM, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - (AFP) - Palestine had a frustrating baptism of fire in their first ever World Cup home qualifier, drawing 1-1 on Sunday against Afghanistan.
Nevertheless, in the wake of their 2-0 win against the Afghans on Wednesday in Tadjikistan, Sunday's result was enough to take the Palestinians into the second round, where they will play Thailand.
Afgha [...]
TEHRAN (AFP) - (AFP) - Iran will completely seal off its eastern borders with Afghanistan and Pakistan by 2015 to prevent drug smuggling and infiltration of armed groups, media quoted the police chief on Saturday as saying.
"About 90 percent of Iran's eastern borders have already been sealed," Arman newspaper quoted General Esmaeil Ahmadi Moghaddam as saying.
"The remaining 10 percent, in the [...]
BAMAKO (AFP) - (AFP) - Al-Qaeda's north African branch, currently holding four French hostages, has welcomed news that hundreds of French soldiers will be pulling out of Afghanistan, a source close to the mediation said Friday.
"The announcement of the coming departure of hundreds of French soldiers from Afghanistan has been well received by the kidnappers of the four French hostage [...]
TEHRAN (AFP) - (AFP) - Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan agreed on Saturday to jointly fight militancy as they attended a counter-terrorism summit overshadowed by an Afghan hospital bombing that killed at least 20 people.
The statement by the three neighbouring presidents followed an announcement by US President Barack Obama that Washington will withdraw 33,000 of its 99,000 troops fro [...]
TEHRAN (AFP) - (AFP) - Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari and his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai held a three-way summit with Iran on Friday ahead of attending an anti-terrorism conference, state news agency IRNA reported.
Zardari, Karzai and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad discussed "ways of battling terrorism, extremism and drug trafficking," IRNA said.
A statement poste [...]
ZURICH (AFP) - The FIFA ethics committee suspended one-time presidential candidate Mohamed bin Hammam of Qatar and FIFA vice-president Jack Warner on Sunday, while clearing FIFA president Sepp Blatter of corruption.
The committee, chaired by Namibian Petrus Damaseb, heard bin Hammam, Warner and Blatter during a dramatic day that started with bin Hammam withdrawing from the president [...]
KABUL (AFP) - NATO troops in Afghanistan said they had killed a Saudi described as an "Al-Qaeda senior leader" and their number two most-wanted insurgent in the country.
The US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said Abu Hafs al-Najdi, also known as Abdul Ghani, was killed in an air strike in Kunar province, eastern Afghanistan, on April 13.
ISAF said he was respons [...]
KABUL (AFP) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai left Saturday on a visit to Tehran, where he will meet his Iranian counterpart following a row over fuel imports and attend a ceremony to mark the Persian new year.
A statement from Karzai's office said he would meet Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and spiritual leader Ali Khomeini, and attend a festival to mark the Persian new year, Nowruz [...]
TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran said on Sunday it has reached an agreement with Afghanistan to supply it with Iranian fuel and that it has started delivering the products to the neighbour's private sector.
Oil Minister Masoud Mirkazemi said "Afghanistan's private sector buys all its needed products from Iran," the oil ministry news service Shana reported.
"Oil products were already transited to Af [...]
BERLIN (AFP) - Iraq and Afghanistan on Tuesday came near the top of a closely watched global list of countries perceived to be the most corrupt, despite efforts to stamp out graft in the war-torn nations.
Nearly three-quarters of the 178 countries in Transparency International's annual survey scored on the sleazier end of the scale, which ranges from zero (perceived to be highly corrupt) to 10 [...]
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