One of the Turkey’s main motives for sending troops to Syria and providing military assistance to anti-Damascus militants is to overthrow the Syrian government and returning the Arab country to the Ottoman Empire, says a US political commentator.

Rohingya Muslims arrested by Myanmar forces have appeared in court in the nation’s capital of Yangon over criminal charges for attempting to flee apartheid-like conditions in Rakhine state.

American author and political commentator Stephen Lendman says the blacklisting of Iran by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is solely for political reasons because the US is waging war on the Islamic Republic by other means which is economic terrorism.

On Friday, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip held a protest rally against Donald Trump's so-called peace plan for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Commission of the Great March of Return in the Gaza Strip had organized the rally. The protesters slammed the US decision that they say violates the right of the Palestinians to return to their homeland.

Yemeni armed forces have pounded facilities belonging to the state-run oil giant Saudi Aramco as well as strategic targets inside the kingdom’s western province of Madinah, a high-ranking Yemeni military official says.

Iran's Cultural Attaché in Lebanon Abbas Khameh-Yar hailed the role of Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani in preserving the unity of the region, adding that the late anti-terror commander managed to foil many plots of the US in the Middle East.

A former police officer in Saudi Arabia’s western region of Medina has reportedly opened fire on his colleagues, killing a colonel and injuring several other policemen before being arrested and taken into custody.

Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) appointed Abu Fadak al-Mohammedawi as the new deputy commander of Hashd al-Shaabi following the martyrdom of his predecessor Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who was killed in a US drone attack last month.