British officials have arrested a prominent rights activist as he returned to the United Kingdom from addressing the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva about the Al Khalifah regime’s human rights abuses.

President Assad says the US is in a close partnership with foreign-sponsored Takfiri terrorists operating in the northeastern part of Syria.

Dozens of Palestinians have been injured after Israeli military forces attacked weekly anti-settlement rallies in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.

A senior official with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad resistance movement says the group’s relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran are “deep-seated and strategic.”

Kuwait has reportedly withdrawn military forces from Saudi Arabia’s southern border with Yemen.

The Gaza-based Hamas resistance movement says Palestinians will resolutely continue their struggle against Israeli occupiers regardless of the regime’s ongoing acts of terror, bombings and siege.

Syrian boxer Mohammad Mlaiyes pulled out of the Hangzhou Asian Games as soon as he found out that an Israeli referee was scheduled to officiate his contest in the men’s over 92-kilogram division.