(2002 est. pop. 6.1 million). Khurasan (translated as "sun rising") is the largest province of Iran, occupying one-fifth of the nation's territory. Located in northeast Iran, it covers an area of 324,000 square kilometers. To its...

Khorasan may refer to: Khorasan, an eastern province of modern Iran. Khorasan, a region in Greater Iran which covered parts of modern day Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Iran, Uzbekistan, and...

An al-Qaida propaganda video posted Saturday on an Islamic Web site claimed the network's Afghanistan wing had called off a purported attack on a U.S. military convoy to save the lives of innocent Muslim civilians.Entitled "Holocaust of the Americans in the land of Khorasan," which...

Arab Islamic radicals who fled Afghanistan in the U.S.-led invasion are coming back, eager to support suicide bombers in their increasingly frequent and effective attacks on Western and Afghan forces.In both Iraq and Afghanistan, young militants feel that "Allah's victory seems to be drawing near"...

A purported al-Qaida commander has accused Shiite Muslims of fighting alongside American forces in Iraq and claimed that mujahedeen would crush foreign troops in Afghanistan.A video issued Friday by al-Qaida's media wing, al-Sahab, shows an interview with a bearded man with a white turban identified...

A purported al-Qaida in Afghanistan commander claimed in an audiotape released early Friday that the terror group was willing to swap prisoners with the U.S., Britain and other countries.The audiotape's authenticity could not independently be confirmed, but it was posted on a Web site commonly...