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A suicide bomber detonated explosives outside a mosque in the south-eastern Iranian city of Chabahar Wednesday as Shiites marked the climax of Ashura, killing 15 people, according to official reports. By News Wires (text) AP - Two suicide bombers blew themselves up near a mosque in southeastern Iran on Wednesday, killing at least 15 people at a Shiite mourning ceremony, Iranian media reported.The attack took place outside the Imam Hussein Mosque in the port city of Chabahar, near the border with Pakistan, the official IRNA news agency said, quoting lawmaker Mohammad Yaghoub Jedgal.The attack targeted

Intelligence reports warn of limited chance of success in Afghanistan WASHINGTON — As President Obama prepares to release a review of American strategy in Afghanistan that will claim progress in the nine-year-old war there, two new classified intelligence reports offer a more negative assessment and say there is a limited chance of success unless Pakistan hunts down insurgents operating from havens on its Afghan border.The reports, one on Afghanistan and one on Pakistan, say that although there have been gains for the United States and NATO in the war, the unwillingness of Pakistan to shut