The administration of President Donald Trump threatens to veto a bid by the United States Congress to end the country’s military support for the Saudi Arabia-led coalition's onslaught in Yemen.

Dozens of more civilians, mostly women and children, have lost their lives and sustained injuries when the US-led coalition purportedly fighting the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group launched a fresh round of airstrikes against an area in Syria’s troubled eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr.

Mainstream media have provided extensive coverage of the mass rallies in Iran marking the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, which brought millions of people to the streets in support of the Islamic establishment.

Iraq’s two leading Shia parliamentary coalitions of Sairoon (Marching Towards Reform) and al-Fatah (Conquest) renewed their calls for the withdrawal of American forces from the Arab country.

The UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov condemned on Monday Israel’s fatal shooting of two Palestinian children in the blockaded Gaza Strip.

A report has revealed that Riyadh is not taking any serious action in response to the gruesome assassination of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey, with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman still receiving advice from Saud al-Qahtani -- a key suspect in the case whom he had apparently fired as his aide -- and letting him operate discreetly.

Saudi Arabia does not need a United Nations-led probe or an international investigation into the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi because its "competent legal system" can handle the matter, its minister of state for foreign affairs said.

The first two Muslim women in the US Congress have angered the pro-Israel lobby by openly supporting the internationally-recognized Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel.