The United States is speculating on the issues of the Kurds in Syria and is trying to set up a "quasi-state on the east bank of the Euphrates" river, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Wednesday

A prominent Shia cleric and the head of the largest parliamentary bloc in Iraq, Muqtada al-Sadr, on Tuesday expressed support for the decision of Prime Minister Adil Abd Mahdi to dismiss the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), known as Hashd Shaabi, and composed predominantly of Shia militias, and incorporate them into the country's regular army

More than 1,600 Syrian refugees have returned to their home country from neighboring Jordan and Lebanon over the past 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry's Center for Reconciliation of Opposing Sides and Refugee Migration Monitoring said on Monday

The Civil Aviation Authority and Anti-Narcotics Force have imposed banned on carrying of snuff (Niswar) during traveling by air