Iraq has deployed reinforcements to the border with Syria amid renewed clashes between US-backed militants and Takfiri terrorists in the region.

A seven-year-old severely malnourished Yemeni girl, whose picture recently further alerted the international community to the disaster-hit nation’s plight, has died amid the ongoing Saudi-led war on the country.

The United States’ trade deficit with China hit a record high in September despite President Donald Trump’s protectionist trade policy, according to figures by the US Commerce Department.

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres says Yemen is teetering “on a precipice”, appealing to the international community to put an end to the Saudi war on the impoverished nation, more than three-and-a-half years after the regime and a number of its allies invaded the peninsular country.

France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the European Union have jointly condemned Washington’s fresh sanctions on Iran’s economy, vowing to protect European firms doing business with Tehran.

President-elect of Brazil plans to close the Palestinian embassy in Brazil, Jewish News Syndicate reported.

An alleged Iranian murder plot in Denmark to kill a political dissident has been swept aside by the country’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif as a “false flag” operation carried out by the Israeli Mossad.

Saudi Arabia’s Finance Ministry announced yesterday that its budget deficit had reached 48.977 billion riyals ($13.65 billion) after the end of the third quarter of this year.

Israel’s Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman has ordered that an apartment block be constructed on top of the central market in Hebron in the occupied West Bank.

Israeli defence companies “will henceforth be allowed to negotiate with almost any country in the world for a possible sale of weapons systems defined as unclassified without obtaining special licenses in advance from the Israeli Defence Export Control Agency (DECA),” reported Globes.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza yesterday warned that a crisis is ensuing as a result of a lack of necessary medicines in its hospitals and healthcare centres, a statement said.

Both Republican and Democratic senators asked US President Donald Trump on Wednesday to suspend civilian nuclear energy talks with Saudi Arabia after the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Reuters reports.

Iraqi authorities launched on Wednesday a campaign to reconstruct the churches that the terrorist group Daesh had destroyed during its takeover of the city of Mosul, in the north of Syria.

A member of Hamas’ political bureau yesterday denounced what he described as “a wave of normalisation by several Arab countries with the Israeli occupation.”

Israeli settlers dumped their sewage on a Palestinian school in the northern occupied West Bank district of Qalqilia yesterday.

At least seven Coptic Christians were killed in a shooting by unknown assailants in Egypt’s central Minya province today, according to local media reports.

A group of extreme right-wing Israeli settlers are believed to have coached the murderers of an unarmed Palestinian mother on how to withstand interrogation by Israeli security agency Shin Bet, pre-empting the agency’s investigation.

"A face-off has been going on between the US and Iran for the past 40 years, in which the United States has always been defeated," stressed Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked the United States to stand by Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Salman (MBS) after the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

The US has agreed to allow eight countries, including India, to keep buying Iranian oil after it reimposes sanctions on Tehran next week, Bloomberg cited a US official as saying.