Iran’s ambassador to the UN has called for the unconditional release of frozen Afghan central bank funds in order to enable the war-ravaged country deal with its worsening economic and humanitarian crises.

The administration of President Joe Biden has denied nearly 85 percent of the applications it has processed from Afghans who want to enter the US through a program which allows for temporarily waiving immigration requirements.

The head of Iraq’s anti-terror Popular Mobilization Units says resistance fighters will not lay down their arms and halt their operations until all American occupation troops beat a retreat from the Arab country.

The Biden administration has rejected a media report that the US is ready to scale back troop deployments and military exercises in Eastern Europe.

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh says the recent withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan proved that Washington is no more the world police.

Iraqi political parties are calling for the formation of an alliance aimed at the expulsion of American occupation forces from the Arab country, in case they decide to prolong their presence there.

Antony Blinken will appear before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee next week to testify about the Biden administration's messy retreat from Afghanistan.