Two senior Saudi royals arrested recently had reportedly been seeking to block the accession to the throne of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) using a procedural body.

Pro-government Iraqi fighters from the Popular Mobilization Units (Hashd al-Sha'abi) conducted a military operation in Diyala province against the ISIL terrorist group and managed to discover and destroy a number of their fortifications and hideouts.

The Syrian army has discovered one of the hideouts of the leader of Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist group, formerly known as al-Nusra Front, on the outskirts of the country’s northwestern city of Aleppo.

The US-led coalition has fully pulled out its forces from a base in al-Anbar province in Western Iraq, security sources said on Monday amid increasing efforts by Baghdad to expel the US army from the country.

Saudi Arabia has been the world’s largest arms importer over the past five years and has boosted by 130 percent its major arms imports, a study by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) shows.

Iranian Vice-President for Citizenship Rights Shahindokht Molaverdi said that the recent stances undertaken by her country’s foreign ministry in regard with brutalities in India shows that Tehran is concerned with the issue of Muslims, adding that, however, more deterrent policies are needed.

Forty-four Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have called on Bahraini King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifah to order release of political dissidents currently being held in the Manama regime’s prisons, and embark on an honest and comprehensive dialogue with the opposition in order to ensure economic sustainability in the Persian Gulf kingdom.

A Hamas spokesman condemned the continued detention and prosecution of Palestinian figures in Saudi Arabia over their support for the Palestinian resistance movement, urging Riyadh to immediately release them.