Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel has started drawing up maps of the occupied West Bank areas that it wants to annex under US President Donald Trump’s self-proclaimed “deal of the century” for the Middle East.

At least six US soldiers as well as six Afghan troops have reportedly been killed in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province after coming under direct file during a skirmish with local insurgents.

A senior Palestinian official blamed President Donald Trump’s Middle East plan for the recent turmoil, after the US leader’s son-in-law said local leaders were inciting violence.

Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri paid tribute to the Iranian Islamic Revolution of 1979 with sending separate messages to the senior officials of the Islamic Republic on the 41st anniversary of the victory of the Islamic Revolution.

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) completed an internal review regarding the pair of whistleblowers who attacked its “contradictory” and “sanitized” report on the alleged April 2018 Douma chemical attack, claiming the leakers were not credible and proposing new security measures to prevent leaks in the future.

Bahraini authorities have summoned and arrested another Shia Muslim cleric as the ruling Al Khalifah dynasty presses ahead with its heavy-handed crackdown against members of the religious community in the country.

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has dismissed US President Donald Trump's so-called deal of the century on the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict as “utterly unacceptable” and “grossly unjust,” saying the scheme legalizes Israeli occupation of Jerusalem al-Quds.

Israeli strikes on Damascus suburbs put a civilian aircraft in serious danger and forced it to divert to Russia’s Khmeimim airbase as the Syrian air defense was activated to repel the attack, the Russian military announced.