TEHRAN: The National Iranian Gas Export Company (NIGEC) signed a long-term agreement with the Swiss-based EGL Group to bring natural gas from Iran to Europe, beginning in 2009.
The investment in exporting gas to Switzerland will reach ?40 (...)
ISLAMABAD: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived Monday in Islamabad for the first time since Pakistan's February parliamentary elections, to discuss bilateral economic and security ties.
During the visit, Ahmadinejad met his counterpart, (...)
In the past few months the Turkish Armed Forces have reportedly deployed over 200,000 soldiers across its border with Iraq, more than all of the American troops deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan together. If it gets its way - pending government (...)
October 680 AD marked the separation of the Shias from mainstream Islam. It was then that Hussein, son of Ali, was martyred in the Battle of Karbala, losing his claim to the leadership of the Muslims.
A total of 1,299 years had passed before a (...)
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They regard Bashar Al-Asad as their leader; they hang Syrian flags in their homes; their mother tongue is Arabic, and they see Israel as an occupying nation. They are the Druze community, and they live in the Israeli-held (...)