The politically-motivated purges by the Saudi heir apparent, which began in 2017, have helped him consolidate power, sideline potential challengers, silence critics and eliminate royal family alliances.

The cabinet reshuffle comes almost a month after Assad, who was voted back to power with a thumping majority in May, took oath of office as the president for another seven-year term.

Israeli forces demolish a two-story Palestinian house, belonging to two brothers and their 12-member families in the Silwan neighborhood of al-Quds.

Notable Saudi Arabian political activist goes on hunger strike again to protest imprisonment conditions.

An international cybersecurity firm says China’s intelligence agencies have most likely been behind a “coordinated” cyber attack against dozens of Israeli organizations, a claim dismissed by Beijing as “baseless” and politically motivated.

Was this incident an Iranian response to recent attacks by Israel, or a false flag operation meant to malign the Islamic Republic and escalate this so called war of tankers into an all-out conflict?

Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein is in Tehran to hold talks on bilateral talks as well as regional issues with high-ranking Iranian officials.

The Russian Embassy in Washington says American military forces in Syria have no legal mandate to operate in the war-ravaged Arab country.

The leader of anti-terror Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq group says Iraqi resistance groups reserve the right to respond to Israeli acts of aggression against the Arab country.

The US State Department imposes new sanctions on anti-terrorism resistance groups in Iraq and Syria under the so-called Iran, North Korea, and Syria Nonproliferation Act (INKSNA).