EghtesadOnline: Foreign Ministry Spokesman, Bahram Qasemi, on Monday strongly condemned recent terrorist blasts in Kandahar, Afghanistan, which killed or wounded a number of the UAE diplomats and Afghan officials and citizens.

EghtesadOnline: The killing of five diplomats from the United Arab Emirates in a bombing in southern Afghanistan marks the deadliest attack ever for the young nation's diplomatic corps, though it's too soon to tell who was behind it or if the Gulf envoys were even the targets.