South Korea on Saturday called the US decision to call off a trip to North Korea by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo unfortunate and said that continued diplomacy was most crucial in resolving the nuclear standoff with Pyongyang.

In a move that was entirely predictable, the US administration is once again threatening to bomb Syria if there is a “chemical weapons attack”.

The Syrian Army continued mop-up operation in Southeastern Deir Ezzur on Saturday, and discovered several ISIL depots of arms and ammunition made in western states.

Bagram Airfield, the largest US military base in Afghanistan, has been targeted by some rockets.Rocket attack rocks Bagram AirfieldThe attack was reportedly occurred on Friday night.

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that a ‘great progress’ was made in the efforts to find a solution to the crisis in Syria.

The Russian Defense Ministry announced that a group of militants trained by UK private military company Olive are preparing to stage a chemical attack in Syria's Idlib to frame Assad as using chemical weapons against civilians.

Iran's legal challenge against renewed sanctions by the United States goes before the UN's top court Monday.

The South Korean appeal court on Friday extended ex-president Park Geun-hye's prison sentence in a case arising from a corruption scandal that led to mass protests and her dismissal in 2017.

Russia is hoping that representatives of the Kabul government will attend the consultations on Afghanistan in Moscow on September 4, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

The naval forces of the Yemeni Ansarullah Popular forces fired an anti-ship missile at a Saudi vessel in the Red Sea, a media outlet reported on Friday.