Erdoğan says Turkey has right to act if terrorists not cleared from northern Syria

"If the terrorists here are not cleared as we were promised, we have the legitimate right to mobilise once again," Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said in a speech to the ruling AK Party lawmakers in the parliament on Wednesday.

Patriarch of Jerusalem slams French anti-Islam remarks

Israel detains Jerusalem Waqf official

US accuses Assad regime of delaying constitution ahead of election

U.S. deputy ambassador Richard Mills urged the Security Council to “do everything in its power” to prevent Bashar Assad’s regime from blocking agreement on a new constitution in 2020, as blaming the Assad regime for deliberately delaying the drafting of a new constitution to waste time until presidential elections in 2021.

Iran’s parliament speaker contracts coronavirus

Iran hits record single-day death toll from COVID-19 pandemic

Iran's official novel coronavirus fatalities crossed the 33,000 mark on Tuesday, the health ministry said, as the country set new records in both daily deaths and infection cases. The new infections bring officially reported Covid-19 cases in the Middle East's worst-hit country to 581,824.

Israel eyes new normalization deals after U.S. presidential elections

"After signing the agreement with the United Arab Emirates, I said there will be other agreements with a country from the Gulf and a country from Africa and later Bahrain and Sudan joined the historical path," Intelligence Minister Eli Cohen said in a statement.

Palestinians take to streets to protest French insults against Islamic values

A great number of Palestinian demonstrators poured into the Jerusalem streets to protest the French cartoons insulting Islamic values and Prophet Mohammed. Protesters waved banners and chanted slogans defending Islam and the prophet against the offensive discourses by the French politicians.

Saudi Arabia condemns French cartoons insulting Prophet

Saudis call for boycott of French supermarket chain Carrefour over insults against Prophet Mohammed

In Saudi Arabia, calls for a boycott of French supermarket chain Carrefour have been trending on social media platforms. Meanwhile, the Riyadh regime on Tuesday condemned cartoons offending the Prophet Mohammad and any attempts to link Islam with terrorism.