Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with the Slovak newspaper Pravda that insinuating that Russian businessman, Yevgeny Prigozhin, allegedly interfered in the 2016 US election with the assistance of the Internet Research Agency is nothing but a mockery of American democracy.

US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis stated that the United States has no plans to suspend more military joint exercises with South Korea, months after the US military indefinitely suspended major maneuvers with the Asian country.

Pakistan's new Prime Minister Imran Khan will skip next month's United Nations General Assembly session to focus his attention on the country's economy, said his foreign minister.

Brazil is sending troops to its northern border to "guarantee law and order" amid an ongoing crisis which is seeing thousands of Venezuelans attempting to cross into neighboring countries and beyond.

The United States told the UN's top court it has no jurisdiction to rule on Iran's demand for the suspension of nuclear-related sanctions recently reimposed on the country.

Turkey has to protect its airspace and the United States has failed to guarantee the sale of Patriot missile defense systems, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said after a US Congress delegation urged Ankara to give up purchasing S-400 missile systems from Russia.

The predominately Kurdish US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) handed over al-Salehiyeh passageway in Southeastern Deir Ezzur to the Syrian army.

After selling Saudi Arabia billion of dollars in weapons and intelligence to attack Yemen, the United States has reportedly warned Riyadh that it will reduce intelligence and military support for the kingdom unless necessary action is taken to limit civilian casualties.

Russia has deployed its biggest ever warship force to the Mediterranean Sea to stop the US from launching a potential strike on Syria.

The State Department said in two press releases on Monday that US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his counterparts from Japan and South Korea in separate phone conversations agreed to continue the pressure campaign on North Korea.