At least four police officers have sustained minor injuries after two sound bombs went off in front of a police station in Iran’s southeastern city of Zahedan.

Iran’s top security official says the country faces no scientific restrictions for increasing the range of its missiles, but that it currently has no plans to do so and is only focused on improving the accuracy of its missile technology.

Iran has censured a “cruel” ruling by Bahrain’s highest court that upheld a life sentence against prominent opposition figure Sheikh Ali Salman, saying the Manama regime is after stifling all critical voices in the kingdom.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says the recent signing of several agreements between Iran and Syria will pave the way for the two countries to boost their steadfastness in the face of an economic war being waged against them by certain Western countries.

Iran and Syria have signed 11 agreements, including a “long-term strategic economic cooperation” deal, in a sign of changing winds in the Middle East which is shaping up to new realities.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has lashed out at the United States over new unilateral sanctions imposed on the Latin American country’s oil sector, vowing to take legal action in response to the move.

Top Yemeni official has blasted Saudi Arabia for exploiting the country’s oil resources in Hadhramaut and Mahrah.

At least two people have been killed as unidentified assailants attacked mosque in southern Philippines with grenades, local security reported.

FBI director Christopher Wray has called China as the most ‘concerning’ counterintelligence for the United States.

Venezuelan envoy to the United Nations has warned that the US is preparing for military invasion against Venezuela in the wake of Washington’s recent sanctions against state-run oil company PDVSA to challenge President Maduro.

Saudi opposition figure says he escaped a fate similar to that of the dissent journalist Jamal Khashoggi killed and dismembered in the kingdom’s Istanbul consulate.