North Korea's state-run media launched a verbal attack on the United States Friday as Washington extended its ban on travel by American citizens to the North by another year.

Russian ships and planes will hold missile-firing and gunning exercises during the Mediterranean Sea drills in September, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy Vladimir Korolev told reporters.

The terrorists in Idlib province are preparing for a false-flag chemical offensive, reports said, adding that two gas cargoes have been transferred to Idlib and Hama by Tahrir al-Sham Hay'at (the Levant Liberation Board or the Al-Nusra Front) in collaboration with French and British nationals.

China on Thursday derided the "irresponsible and absurd logic" of the United States after President Donald Trump accused Beijing of making Washington's relationship with North Korea more difficult.

Hanan Ashrawi, member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), strongly denounced on Wednesday the Israeli Jerusalem District Court’s ruling to legalize Mitzpeh Kramim settlement outpost, North of Ramallah and which was built illegally on private Palestinian land, describing the decision as “an outrageous travesty”.

EU Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini said that US sanctions on Iran has turned maintaining Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) into a challenging issue that needs cooperation of all parties involved in the talk.

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.