SANANDAJ: After the demand of Islamic scholars as well as the public of Kurdistan province the General Culture Council has asked the Iranian parliament to legislate the legal opinion (fatwa) of Ayatollah Khamenehi.

NATO has confirmed the death of six more soldiers in Afghanistan, bringing the death toll of US-led foreign forces in the war-torn country to 580 so far this year.

A cargo plane has crashed into mountains near the Afghan capital, Kabul, killing all eight people on board, a local civil aviation official said. The C-130 plane was reportedly transporting goods for Nato when it crashed on Tuesday.

At least 20 civilians have been killed during an operation by US-led NATO forces in Afghanistan’s southern province of Helmand, officials and residents say.

ZAHEDAN: The official website of Sunni community in Iran (SunniOnlilne) has been targeted by unknown hackers for another time as they faced failure.

Two US-led soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb placed on a highway in southern Afghanistan, and in eastern Afghanistan five members of a family were killed by another roadside bomb.

Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, has confirmed unofficial talks between his government and the Taliban aimed at ending the nine-year conflict have been going on for “quite some time”.

MIRAMSHAH: A suspected US drone attack killed seven people in the North Waziristan tribal region on Sunday, DawnNews quoted sources as saying.

At least four Italian soldiers have been killed and another seriously injured in an attack in western Afghanistan, Italy’s Defense Ministry says.

Unidentified gunmen in southwestern Pakistan have attacked 30 NATO tankers carrying fuel for US-led foreign troops in Afghanistan. Gunmen set fire to more than two dozen tankers on Saturday, Reuters quoted an official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, as saying.