Thousands of mourners took part in a funeral procession on Saturday for a Palestinian protester, who was killed a day earlier as clashes erupted between Palestinians and Israeli forces.
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The leader of an opposition political party in Saudi Arabia says the ruling Riyadh regime heavily relies on Western support in order to survive, and that the House of Saud has no popular sovereignty as it has not been created and isn’t sustained by the consent of its people.
Predicting the imminent downfall of the Islamic Republic has been a staple among American pundits since the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran 41 years ago. Amazingly, despite incessant attempts at regime change by the US and its cohorts, Iran has survived and, in some ways, managed to flourish. Yet very few in the West have acknowledged the Islamic Republic’s longevity and fewer still have studied the factors behind this country’s remarkable robustness.
Syrian government forces, backed by allied militants from popular defense groups, have managed to establish full control over a strategic region in the southern countryside of the country’s northern province of Aleppo from the al-Qaeda-linked militants.
Indian officials have extended six-month imprisonment of four political leaders in the disputed Kashmir region under a draconian law that allows their continued captivity without charge for two years, authorities said.
Two commanders of Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr’s movement have been killed in separate attacks in the span of 24 hours in what appears to be a plot to create division among Iraqi groups.
Iraqi media released images of Steven Nabil, one of the main leaders of the recent unrests in the Arab country, that show his close ties with the US officials.
Israeli authorities are reportedly working hard to arrange a meeting between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the kingdom, as the Tel Aviv regime is bringing out in the open its relations with several Arab countries after years of clandestine contacts.
The Palestinian Authority has censured the recent spate of “dangerous Israeli escalation against Palestinian people” in the occupied West Bank as the aftermath of US President Donald Trump's announcement of his so-called deal of the century on the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict.