More than 100 people fighting for the Saudi forces who have occupied parts of Yemen have been killed in a missile attack by the country’s ruling Houthi Ansarullah movement.

Nearly a dozen Saudi-backed militiamen loyal to former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi have been killed or injured when Yemeni army soldiers and fighters from allied Popular Committees launched separate attacks in Yemen’s northwestern province of Hajjah.

The US Defense Department claimed that its military presence makes Iraq more secure and "prosperous", despite calls by Iraqi lawmakers for the removal of all foreign troops from the country and growing tensions with Iran.

US Central Command revealed that 11 personnel stationed at an Iraqi airbase which incurred a retaliatory missile attack by Iran over the Pentagon's assassination of Tehran's top commander, Qassem Soleimani, had to be sent out of the country after displaying concussion symptoms.

The Islamic Republic of Iran’s defensive missile capability, as evident in the country’s retaliatory strikes on American military bases in Iraq, was “very impressive,” and proved that Tehran was prepped in every way to counter any possible attacks on the part of the United States, says a political commentator in New York.

A video has emerged showing scuffles erupting between local residents and Israeli forces as they were demolishing two Palestinian homes in the southern Hebron Hills area of the occupied West Bank.

The United States has reportedly dispatched dozens of truckloads of military and logistical equipment to oil-rich areas it has occupied in Syria’s Eastern province of Deir Ezzur and the Northeastern Province of Hasakah as Washington and some of its regional allies are vying with one another to seize oil reserves and plunder natural resources in the war-battered country.

An Israeli rabbi has been detained in occupied Jerusalem al-Quds on suspicion of holding dozens of women and children in slave-like conditions.