Rasa - We can still remember vividly how America's top diplomat Rex Tillerson said Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has no role to play in the future of his country and he must go.

Rasa - Abdel Bari Atwan, the editor-in-chief of Rai al-Youm newspaper, underlined that resignation of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri was a plot hatched by Washington and implemented by Riyadh.

Rasa - Abdel Bari Atwan, the editor-in-chief of Rai al-Youm newspaper, described resignation of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri as a Saudi-US gambling, stressing that Riyadh is beating the drums of war against Hezbollah.

Rasa - Top Iranian adviser Ali Akbar Velayati says that Syrian troops will soon be marching on the city of Raqqa to recover it from the separatist Kurdish YPG.

Rasa - As long anticipated, the anti-partition alliance of Iran, Syria, Russia and Hezbollah has effectively finished its offensive into the provincial capital of Deir Ezzur, which has been contested for years between them and ISIL.

Rasa - The international civil society is deeply disappointed that House leadership has again prevented a debate and vote on ending US participation in the famine-inducing Saudi-led war on Yemen.

Rasa - Appearing with Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis in front of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Monday night that the American forces deployed to Iraq will hypothetically stay in that country until the ISIS terrorist group is fully defeated, even if the Iraqi government asked Washington to leave. Last week, Tillerson called on the Iranian-backed anti-terror forces in Iraq to pull out.

Rasa - The Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman has announced on Thursday plans to launch a $500 billion project of building a mega city, dubbed NEOM.

Rasa - As the life of the ISIS-declared caliphate led by the self-appointed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi nears its end, the future of the West Asia region after the terrorist group’s obliteration rises to call attention as the most important issue.

Rasa - What is now formally identified as the Popular Mobilization Forces, or locally Hashd al-Shaabi, in Iraq is a force founded three years ago with the aim of combating the then-advancing ISIS terrorist group.