Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations slammed the US government’s policy of withdrawal from the international organizations, warning against Washington’s call for the UN member states to disobey the UNSC Resolution 2231 which endorses the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei described the Parliament’s move to summon President Hassan Rouhani for a series of questions and the president’s calm responses as a demonstration of the Islamic Republic’s power, stability and religious democracy.

China on Wednesday denied that it planned to build a military base in Afghanistan, after a Hong Kong newspaper said Beijing was constructing a training camp for Afghan troops to which it could also send its own soldiers.

Myanmar's government rejected a United Nations' report on mass killings and gang rapes of Rohingya, which calls for Myanmar officials to face genocide charges over their campaign against the Muslim minority.

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.