The Taliban have rejected reports that the militant group has agreed to observe a brief ceasefire in Afghanistan amid ongoing peace talks with the United States.
Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will soon have normal ties and formal peace agreements with a number of Arab countries.
Iraqi President Barham Salih has condemned Washington's attacks on Kata'ib Hezbollah, which is part of Iraq's Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), as the death toll from the air raids reaches more than two dozen.
Head of the Popular Mobilization Forces:
Hujjat al-Islam al-Haydari said, “Most disrespectful is the arrogant American presence on a land that is not theirs, and in spite of that, they bomb, kill and attack the official sacred Popular Mobilization Forces.”
Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), commonly known by the Arabic name Hashd al-Sha’abi, say US forces in the country have carried out an airstrike on a number of their facilities in the western Anbar province, reporting casualties.
A Palestinian anti-siege group has appealed to the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to improve the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip by pressuring the Israeli regime to lift its years-long crippling siege of the impoverished enclave.
Netanyahu’s Son to UK Diplomats:
Yair Netanyahu, the eldest son of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, called for the expulsion of British diplomats from the country over the status of Palestinian territories.
Palestinian NGO:
Israeli prisons are rife with mistreatment and abuse of Palestinian inmates, a rights advocacy group says, highlighting that well over 1,000 complaints of torture by prison guards have been filed since 2001.
The two-day meeting of the so-called 'independent dissidents' hosted by Riyadh was viewed as a coup against the Syrian opposition figures who participate in the Geneva negotiations.