Former US Ambassador to Iraq Christopher Hill says Saudi Arabia is sponsoring violence in Iraq and is the biggest challenge to be faced by the Iraqi government.
Militants in Syria have kidnapped at least 13 more Kurds in the northern province of Aleppo, and turned them over to al-Qaeda-linked extremists.
A Saudi activist has revealed the details of the early removal of Prince Fahd bin Abdullah bin Mohammad Al Saud as deputy defense minister and the appointment of Prince Salman bin Sultan bin Abdel-Aziz to the post, al-Alam reports.
Iran’s Kurdish lawmakers have slammed the massacre of scores of Syrian Kurds by the foreign-backed Takfiri militants and called for international action against such crimes.
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani will pay an official visit to the Kyrgyz capital city of Bishkek in September to participate in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit.
The United States Department of Defense has proposed the Congress $2.7 billion in new arms sales to Iraq for air defense, communications systems and maintenance.
A Saudi al-Qaeda commander, responsible for beheading many civilians and Syrian soldiers, has been killed in Syria’s port city of Latakia.
Several terrorists from Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Tunisia have been killed in latest army operations in different parts of Syria.
The blast of a cluster bomb left from Israel’s 33-day war on Lebanon has killed an 18-year-old boy in Hasbaya district in the Nabatiyeh Governorate of Lebanon.
The Muslim Brotherhood has announced establishing its first official office in Syria’s Aleppo, after nearly 33 years of activity ban by Syrian government.