An Israeli court has dismissed a request by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to postpone the start of his corruption trial, stressing that it will begin next week as planned.

Daesh Takfiri terrorists have killed a senior commander of the Popular Mobilization Units in Iraq’s eastern province of Diyala as government troops and allied fighters are engaged in joint counter-terrorism operations across the crisis-hit Arab country to flush out the last remnants of the extremist outfit.

Two senior Saudi royals arrested recently had reportedly been seeking to block the accession to the throne of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) using a procedural body.

Presidential elections have been rigged for at least around the last 200 years in the United States, “going back to about the 1820s,” according to Stephen Lendman, an author and political commentator in Chicago.

Pro-government Iraqi fighters from the Popular Mobilization Units (Hashd al-Sha'abi) conducted a military operation in Diyala province against the ISIL terrorist group and managed to discover and destroy a number of their fortifications and hideouts.

The Syrian army has discovered one of the hideouts of the leader of Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist group, formerly known as al-Nusra Front, on the outskirts of the country’s northwestern city of Aleppo.

The US-led coalition has fully pulled out its forces from a base in al-Anbar province in Western Iraq, security sources said on Monday amid increasing efforts by Baghdad to expel the US army from the country.

Saudi Arabia has been the world’s largest arms importer over the past five years and has boosted by 130 percent its major arms imports, a study by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) shows.

Iranian Vice-President for Citizenship Rights Shahindokht Molaverdi said that the recent stances undertaken by her country’s foreign ministry in regard with brutalities in India shows that Tehran is concerned with the issue of Muslims, adding that, however, more deterrent policies are needed.

Forty-four Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have called on Bahraini King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifah to order release of political dissidents currently being held in the Manama regime’s prisons, and embark on an honest and comprehensive dialogue with the opposition in order to ensure economic sustainability in the Persian Gulf kingdom.