Russia’s security chief says the United States turned Afghanistan into a global illicit drug laboratory in the past 20 years, and says Russia would set no preconditions for potential military presence in the war-ravaged country.

Iran’s permanent representative to Vienna-based international organizations says confronting the world’s drug problem requires shared responsibility by all countries.

At least 14 people, including two children, have been massacred in a remote area of central Peru.

Seuxis Paucias Hernandez, known in Colombia by his nom de guerre Jesus Santrich, was traveling on a truck in the western Venezuelan state of Zulia when he was attacked by a Colombian commando unit that had illegally crossed the border, a group of former FARC members has claimed.

A senior Iranian diplomat says the unilateral sanctions on Iran have been hampering the country's fight against smuggling of illicit drugs.

Mexican authorities say over the weekend they recovered 19 bodies, some burned and shot, in a vehicle left in an uninhabited region of Tamaulipas in the country's north.

A senior Iranian human rights official has dismissed a UN’s report on its human rights situation, saying it is based on unsubstantiated allegations of terrorists.

NATO says its members will decide together on when to withdraw forces from Afghanistan.

Iran’s Intelligence Ministry dismantles a drug trafficking band in northeastern city of Mashhad, arresting two non-Iranian members.

Venezuela’s army has shot down a US-registered aircraft carrying drugs, Interior Minister Nestor Reverol says.