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Major General Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the second-in-command of Iraq's Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), have been assassinated in US airstrikes in the Iraqi capital Baghdad.

A West Asia analyst said the Tuesday demonstrations around the US Embassy in Iraq were another downturn in Iraq-US relations that show the Iraqi people are bent on stopping US intervention in their country’s affairs.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he would approach the regime's parliament in order to seek immunity from corruption charges, in a move that could considerably delay criminal proceedings against him.

Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday that the US is taking ISIL's revenge on Hashd Al-Shaabi, otherwise known as Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU).

The Sunday US attacks in Iraq and Syria targeting Hezbollah Brigades, a section of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces, had their roots in various motives, an analyst believes.

Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will soon have normal ties and formal peace agreements with a number of Arab countries.

A Palestinian anti-siege group has appealed to the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to improve the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip by pressuring the Israeli regime to lift its years-long crippling siege of the impoverished enclave.

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says Israeli authorities have demolished and confiscated hundreds of Palestinian structures in the occupied West Bank since January as the Tel Aviv regime presses ahead with its land expropriation policies in the occupied territories.

Israeli forces have attacked Palestinians taking part in the final round of protests held on a weekly basis near the fence separating the Gaza Strip from the occupied territories, leaving a number of protesters injured.

Dozens of Christian Palestinians attend midnight mass in the Gaza Strip to celebrate Christmas, a community of about 1,000, that needs to apply for Israeli permission to travel to Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank to celebrate the birth of Jesus.

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accused the International Criminal Court of alleged anti-Semitism after its chief prosecutor said the Hague-based court would launch a war crimes probe in the Palestinian territories.

Syrian air defense forces have repelled an attack launched from "the occupied territories", according to Syrian state media.

A recent decision by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to launch a full investigation into war crimes in Palestinian territories has raised alarm among current and former Israeli officials and military personnel, who may face global arrest warrants as a result of the probe.

Dozens of Palestinians have been wounded by Israeli forces during protests against the Tel Aviv regime near the fence separating the besieged Gaza Strip from the occupied territories.

A session named as “The impact of UK elections on Middle East policies of the west world” was convened in the Headquarters of the Society for the Desense of Palestinian People, with the presence of Seyed Mostafa Khosh Cheshm and Reza Bagheri, both men as analysts and academic figures.

Over the past weeks, we have witnessed that the Jordanian officials have not attended the 25th anniversary of the Peace Agreement with the Israelis and they have not sent any political representatives to the occupied territories.

Israeli authorities are apparently injecting more momentum into their efforts to bring out in the open their clandestine relations with a number of Arab countries, particularly Persian Gulf littoral states, the regime's officials say.

According to Qods News Agency (Qodsna) a session was held titled as “The Future of Peace and Human Rights in The region” inside the conference Hall of Imam Khomeini International University. During the session Qods News Agency (Qodsna) correspondent held an exclusive interview with Saad Jawad Ghandil the Iraqi ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Iran and discussed the developments in Iraq and also about the new prime minister elections.

Hezbollah poses a considerable threat to the scenarios developed by the United States and the Israeli regime to be implemented in the Middle East, says the secretary general of Lebanon's resistance movement, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.

A senior Israeli rabbi has visited Bahrain under the pretext of attending a religious event and met with the kingdom’s monarch, as Tel Aviv and its Arab allies speed up attempts to normalize ties following years of clandestine contacts.

The Chinese government rejects a White House decision that reversed Washington’s four-decade-old position on Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, says China’s new special envoy on the Middle East affairs.

The Palestinian Hamas resistance movement has warned of an “upcoming outburst of rage” against the Israeli occupying regime over its persistent violations against the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied Old City of Jerusalem, al-Quds, and Muslim worshipers in the complex.

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has warned the Israeli regime against continued airstrikes on its positions in the besieged Gaza Strip, describing such acts of aggression as “serious escalation that cannot go unpunished.”

The Israeli military has reportedly tested a propulsion system used for carrying nuclear-capable and other missiles, with the occupying entity’s media billing the alleged display as “a show of force aimed at Iran.”