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Hurriyet Daily News
April 28, 2018
The fourth of the oil contracts was won by another Chinese firm, United Energy Group, which will receive 4.55 percent of profits for exploiting the Sinbad bloc in Basra province, close to the Iranian border. The profit-sharing deals for the contracts differ from concessions granted in 2010, which paidÃâà...
Rudaw
April 21, 2018
They have also frequently been fired on by Iranian border guards. There are 75,000 to 80,000 kolbars in the border areas. Iranian authorities have struggled for years to regulate or shut down the trade. The unofficial or semi-official border crossings used by the kolbars have been closed for about threeÃâà...
Ahval
April 20, 2018
“Approximately 2.5 million Afghans are waiting on the Iranian border. We are at the point of finishing 95 percent of our border walls in Iğdır. The irregular migration rate in Iğdır decreased by 90 percent.” Soylu also said Turkey had ongoing projects as part of integrated border management scheme, includingÃâà...
The Peninsula Qatar
April 12, 2018
(Navy) Ali Ahmed Al Badeed, led the Qatari side, while Commander of the Iranian Border Guards, Brigadier General Qassem Rezayee, led his country's side. Al Badeed said this regular meeting comes as part of the agreement signed between Qatar and Iran to coordinate between the coast and bordersÃâà...
Anadolu Agency
April 12, 2018
Airstrikes on PKK targets in northern Iraq, where the terror group has its main base in the Mt. Qandil region, near the Iranian border, have been carried out regularly since July 2015, when the PKK resumed its armed terror campaign against Turkey. The PKK is listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey asÃâà...
Anadolu Agency
April 12, 2018
Airstrikes on PKK targets in northern Iraq, where the terror group has its main base in the Mt. Qandil region, near the Iranian border, have been carried out regularly since July 2015, when the PKK resumed its armed terror campaign. A total of 173 terrorists were neutralized in Turkey's counter-terrorismÃâà...
Financial Tribune
April 12, 2018
However, slightly to the east, on its own border with Iran, Azerbaijan is endeavoring to thwart Yerevan's plans. Last December, Armenia opened a free economic zone in its southernmost city of Meghri along the Iranian border. The zone aims to take advantage of the Iranian market and position Yerevan as aÃâà...
Samaa Web Desk
April 11, 2018
GUJRANWALA: Iranian border forces have killed two migrants from Gujranwala on the border with Pakistan, the families said on Tuesday. Lakht-e-Abbas and Sarfaraz, in their 20s, were trying to illegally cross into Iran when they were spotted and shot by the Iranian border guards. They died on the spot.
LobeLog
April 11, 2018
Last December, Armenia opened a free economic zone (FEZ) in its southernmost city of Meghri, on the Iranian border. The zone aims to take advantage of the Iranian market and position Yerevan as a broker between Tehran and the Eurasian Economic Union, the Russia-led trade organization of whichÃâà...
Al-Arabiya
April 11, 2018
Commander of the Iranian border guards, Brigadier General Qassim Rezaie, is currently visiting Qatar and said in a statement that there is “good and growing border cooperation between Iran and Qatar.” He told IRNA news agency that there is cooperation between the Iranian border forces and the QatariÃâà...
Al-Arabiya
April 10, 2018
Commander of the Iranian border guards, Brigadier General Qassim Rezaie, is currently visiting Qatar and said in a statement that there is “good and growing border cooperation between Iran and Qatar.” He told IRNA news agency that there is cooperation between the Iranian border forces and the QatariÃâà...
EurasiaNet
April 10, 2018
Last December, Armenia opened a free economic zone (FEZ) in its southernmost city of Meghri, on the Iranian border. The zone aims to take advantage of the Iranian market and position Yerevan as a broker between Tehran and the Eurasian Economic Union, the Russia-led trade organization of whichÃâà...
Anadolu Agency
April 10, 2018
Afghan national Muhammad Ishak said that he endured a 50-kilometer walk from the Iranian border to reach Agri. He told Anadolu Agency that the traffickers had left 180 Afghans -- including himself -- behind and run away. "The traffickers said they could get me to Istanbul if I paid them $1,300. After I paidÃâà...
Kurdistan24
April 10, 2018
ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Iranian border guards Sunday evening opened fire on four citizens of the Kurdistan Region in its southeast area, killing and wounding at least two of them. The Kurdish youths went to Shawal area, located on the Kurdistan Region border with Iran, to hunt according to their family which spoke withÃâà...
Al-Monitor
April 4, 2018
Iranian border guards managed to safely retrieve him, unlike many other similar victims, and transport him to a nearby hospital by air ambulance. The prevalence of landmines in western Iran, largely home to ethnic minorities, including Kurds, Lurs and Arabs, poses a serious hazard to the lives of millions ofÃâà...
Anadolu Agency
March 23, 2018
Airstrikes on PKK targets in northern Iraq, where the terror group has its main bases in the Mt. Qandil region, near the Iranian border, have been carried out regularly since July 2015, when the PKK resumed its armed terror campaign. The airstrikes take place amid the Turkish-led Operation Olive BranchÃâà...
Winston-Salem Journal
March 22, 2018
An international oil and gas exposition in Basra, planned for December, will give another chance for the two countries to mingle, just a few kilometers from the Iranian border. And then there's the religious rift: The Saudi-Iraqi estrangement in recent years helped worsen the sectarian divide between Sunnis,Ãâà...
The Nation
March 18, 2018
The spokesman, attributing domestic growth in the sector to the policies of the government and its thrust on mega infrastructure projects, said that the local production could increase substantially if the smuggling of this commodity from Iranian border is checked. Moreover, he appealed to the government toÃâà...
TOLOnews
March 18, 2018
According to Dawn News, the shells were fired by Iranian border guards and exploded in an open space in the Parako area, a small village in Panjgur district. The report stated security officials said mortar shells were fired in the early hours of the morning, adding that no casualties were reported. HoweverÃâà...
ABC News
March 14, 2018
Zarif, who arrived on Monday, met with senior officials and praised Pakistan for the "timely" sharing of intelligence, which he said allowed Iranian border guards to kill two would-be bombers. The restive area along the border has been the scene of several attacks by armed groups as well as drug smugglers.
Rudaw
March 10, 2018
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – A kolbar was killed by a landmine after coming under fire from Iranian border guards. In a separate incident in ... They frequently come under the fire of Iranian border guards or risk their lives in the treacherous mountain passes and cold winter temperatures. Some kolbars areÃâà...
Al-Monitor
March 7, 2018
But from early 2015, as the Iraqi Kurds became more confident over their role in fighting the Islamic State, they appear to have allowed the KDPI to deploy hundreds of their peshmerga forces to border areas, where they became involved in clashes with both Iranian border guards and members of the IRGC.
DAWN.com
December 31, 1999
QUETTA: Iranian border forces fired mortar shells at Pakistani border villages in the Nokondi area of Chagai district on Monday. Official sources said that mortar shells fired from the Iranian side landed and exploded in two bordering villages, Rajaay and Gawal-shap, in Nokondi. “Mortar shells were fired inÃâà...
Saudi Gazette
December 31, 1999
By Ece Toksabay ON a mountainous road leading west from the Iranian border, 22-year-old Sunnatilla Rasulbek trudges through heavy rain, one of tens of thousands of Afghans hoping to find work and security in Turkey before a wall goes up to keep them out. Already 2,000 km (1,250 miles) from his homeÃâà...
Kurdistan24
December 31, 1999
It added that 53 of the 97 Kulbar who were wounded were shot by Iranian border guards while 44 “fell off heights and other incidents.” Hengaw recorded death and injury statistics for the first seven months of 2017. Shooting unarmed border couriers is a violation of Iran's laws as well as international laws. (Photo: Archive).
DAWN.com
December 31, 1999
In April last year, 10 Iranian border guards were killed by militants in Mirjaveh. From 2005 to 2010, Sistan-Baluchestan suffered a prolonged insurgency by the jihadist group Jundallah, although violence was largely curbed after the killing of its leader in mid-2010. Sunni militant groups which have carriedÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
December 31, 1999
... of weapons and ammunition from militants in the area. Iranian security forces frequently clash with militants and drug traffickers in Sistan-Baluchistan. The province lies on a major smuggling route for Afghan opium and heroin. In April last year, 10 Iranian border guards were killed by militants in Mirjaveh.
Voice of America
December 31, 1999
Zarif said the Iranian border guard taken hostage has not been freed and that, “We hope that our Pakistani friends help us return him.” Since then, the Iranian minister said, there has been “excellent cooperation” between the two countries and Monday's incident “was an indication.” Iran shares more thanÃâà...
RadioFarda
December 31, 1999
Last April, ten Iranian border guards were killed by Sunni militants in a cross-border attack, Tasnim news agency reported at the time. The militant Sunni group Jaish al-Adl (the Army of Justice) claimed responsibility, the report said. Nearly two weeks later, the Chairman of the Islamic Republic's ArmedÃâà...
Voice of America
December 31, 1999
The Taliban has captured a western Afghan district near the border with Iran after inflicting heavy casualties on government forces. Insurgents early Monday assaulted Anar Dara in the province of Farah and “partially” took control of the district headquarters, a provincial government spokesman said.
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