India hit back at the US media, political leaders, and official bodies like the House Foreign Affairs Committee and United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) for comments on recent violence in Delhi.
Saudi Arabia says it has temporarily suspended entry for individuals aiming to perform Umrah pilgrimage or to visit the Prophet's Mosque in Medina over concerns of the spread of COVID-19, the novel coronavirus.
Senior MP:
A senior Iraqi legislator strongly criticized the US meddling in his country’s internal affairs as well as the presence of thousands of American forces.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has appealed for calm following days of clashes between Hindus and minority Muslims that left nearly two dozen people dead and hundreds more injured across the capital New Delhi.
The Iraqi Army announced that a large number of ISIL terrorists, including a notorious commander, have been killed in a series of military operations in Salahuddin province’s mountainous regions.
The Arab League has called for the redeployment of international observers to al-Khalil (Hebron) and other Palestinian cities to protect the Palestinians against Israeli crimes a year after the regime expelled the civilian observer mission from the occupied territories.
Top Russian official:
A high-ranking Russian official says Western intelligence services are sponsoring members of the so-called civil defense group White Helmets and offering complete support to them to propagate fake news in a bid to incriminate Syrian government forces as a pretext for possible acts of aggression on army troops.
A mosque has been set on fire in the Indian capital, New Delhi, during clashes over a citizenship law that is deemed biased against Muslims.
A senior Qatari official has strongly condemned the ongoing Saudi-led economic and diplomatic embargo against the energy-rich Persian Gulf country, describing the punitive measures as a violation of human rights and all international conventions.