Australia, Iran, S. Korea earn Cup berths

Australia scored with seven minutes remaining to beat Iraq 1-0 and secure one of Asia's final three direct berths at next year's soccer World Cup alongside Iran and South Korea. Striker Josh Kennedy scored five minutes after coming off the ...

The Socceroos confirmed their qualification with a 1-0 win over Iraq in Sydney thanks to an 83rd minute goal from Josh Kennedy.Later Jordan's 1-0 win over Oman in Amman meant Australia would have qualified even with a draw to Iraq or a loss due to a ...

Iran is ready to provide Iraq with a 'clean Internet'; the Mehr News Agency quoted Iranian deputy telecommunications minister Hossein Mazloomi as saying.The official did not elaborate on the clean internet. The two countries have reached an ...

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton pledged on Monday during a trip to Baghdad to press Iran for greater cooperation over its nuclear program after Tehran elected a new president. Ashton also discussed the bloody conflict in Iraq's western ...

Recently much has been made of the so-called "Arc of Shi'ism", from Lebanon to Iran, through Syria and Iraq. I submit that what is more significant is the much broader and longer "Arc of Chaos", from Tunisia to Pakistan. Of this huge chunk of the ...

Iran Press TV Mon Jun 17, 2013 9:28AM GMT Ten people have been killed and several others wounded in two bomb attacks in Iraq, police and medical sources say. The first attack was carried out in the town of Taji, about 20 kilometers (12 miles) ...

Iran Press TV Sun Jun 16, 2013 11:58AM GMT At least 32 people have been killed and many more injured in a wave of violence, including car bomb attacks and a shooting incident, in several southern and central cities and towns of Iraq. The car bomb ...

* Iran drops to seventh on list of India's oil suppliers * India replaces Iran shipments with oil from Venezuela, Iraq, Oman * India Oil may delay further Iran imports to 4th quarter -sources * Essar Oil could be left as Iran's sole Indian ...

A Shiite militia has claimed responsibility for a rocket attack over the weekend on a sprawling camp near Baghdad that killed two members of an Iranian exile group. Saturday's attack on Camp Liberty also killed an Iraqi and wounded nine Iranians ...