Iraq’s anti-terror resistance groups reiterate their readiness to counter any possible attack by US occupation forces, saying that they are also on high alert for any false-flag US operation aimed at creating further unrest in the Arab country.

A Counter Terrorism Service official said nearly 40 terrorists had been killed in three days.

A human rights group says the Manama regime is abusing anti-terror laws to silence speech freedom and political dissidents in Bahrain.

Iran says it is fully ready for joint anti-terror operations with neighboring Pakistan after militants killed six Pakistani troops near their joint border Friday.

Turkish security forces have arrested 137 suspected members of the PKK militant group in a country-wide operation.

Egypt's police forces have killed at least 12 suspected terrorists in the northern Sinai Peninsula.

Putin made the remarks in an opening address to the 137th Assembly of Inter-Parliamentary Union in St. Petersburg.