Ukrainian officials have warned against escalations due to Russian military deployment in Crimea region, while Russian authorities have said Moscow would protect its interests in Ukraine.
Lebanese Hezbollah resistance group has declared a state of alert and began deploying troops to the country’s south, as the possibility of a U.S.-led strike on Syria was publicly weighed.
Iraq has put its security forces on high alert ahead of an expected Western strike on neighboring Syria.
Economic activities in Bahrain have come to a standstill, as the peaceful movement of the Bahraini people in response to a call by the Tamarod movement has started, al-Alam reports.
Russia and the United States together hold about 90 percent of the world's nuclear weapons while keeping them “unnecessarily excessive” at high alert, a report says.