A top US diplomat has said the United States will supply lethal arms to Ukraine if “aggression” from pro-Russian forces persists, but warned that Moscow would easily match the effort by sending more weapons into the country.

A top Iranian commander says the Israeli regime is an easy target for Palestinian resistance groups whose, missiles can reach the entire Israeli occupied territories.

The 20th Muscat International Book Fair (February 26-March 7) has offered a rich treat to visitors with titles on Oman and other countries, vision on interfaith dialogue, worldwide unity and brotherhood in the light of His Majesty the Sultan’s policy of “Friendship with all and enmity to none”.

Iraq’s top Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani has censured the targeting of the country's cultural heritage, particularly the destruction of the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud, by the ISIL terrorist group.

Bahrain’s Al Khalifah regime continues to clamp down on pro-democracy protesters ahead of the anniversary of a Saudi incursion into the Persian Gulf country.

The Iranian role in Iraq is supported by Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi as well as Iraqi Sunni leaders, US Secretary of State John Kerry said in Riyadh on Thursday.

A bomb explosion has rocked a city in the northern Egyptian province of Gharbia, killing one and injuring 11 others.

The Syrian army has been pressing ahead with pounding positions of the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front after killing a military chief belonging to the terrorist group.

A series of fierce clashes have broken out when Israeli forces attacked separate groups of Palestinians protesting in the occupied West Bank and opened fire to disperse the crowds.

General Secretory of the World Forum for Proximity of the Islamic Schools of Thought urged Muslims to consider and follow the lifestyle of Martyrs in their daily lives.

Tajikistan's President Emomali Rahmon says Tajiks who have traveled to Syria and Iraq to fight for terrorist groups including the ISIL will burn in hell.

Ayatollah Nouri-Hamadani said: "It is the duty of seminarians to provide answers and correct their propaganda and thus must strengthen their abilities and knowledge to deal with this propagation."

Another Muslim man has been shot dead in the United States while he was taking pictures of the snow with his family in Dallas, Texas.

The Syrian army has captured a strategic town in the western province of Lattakia from Takfiri terrorists.

A senior Iranian cleric says a possible final agreement between Iran and the P5+1 countries over Tehran’s nuclear program will be a win-win deal.

The US military has acknowledged that Iraqi forces have managed to force out ISIL terrorists from the western town of al-Baghdadi.