Iraq's parliament approved a law on Saturday that will transform Popular Mobilization forces, a mostly Iranian-backed coalition of Shi'ite militias that played a role in fighting Islamic State, into a legal and separate military corps.

slamist-dominated opposition groups and their allies secured nearly half of the Kuwaiti parliament's seats, official results showed Sunday, raising fears of fresh political wrangling in the oil-rich Gulf state.

ISIS declared on its Telegram instant messaging application its responsibility for killing the Aden Airport security officer last Tuesday (November 22, 2016), in the southern Yemeni city.

The Kuwaiti Ministry of Interior announced on Friday that death of Sheikh Sabah Mubarak Al Sabah Al Nasser Al Sabah, member of the Kuwaiti Royal family, along with two others, in the Salwa region.

The United States strongly condemned the “terrorist attack” adopted by ISIS in the city of Hilla, Iraq, by a booby-trapped vehicle detonated in the midst of Shiite pilgrims on their way back from Karbala, killing at least 70 people, most of them Iranians.

The Iran-backed popular mobilization in Iraq said that it arrived on Wednesday to the Kurdish Peshmerga defense lines west of Mosul, adding that this step means encircling the entire city that is under the control of ISIS, and the neighboring city of Tal Afar.

Kuwaitis vote on Saturday for a new parliament they hope will halt austerity measures forced by falling oil revenues in the emirate, known for its cradle-to-grave welfare system.

Editor in Chief of the Saudi “Asharq Al-Awsat” newspaper, Salman Aldosary, announced his resignation, days after the scandal of his newspaper publishing fabricated news and reports about the World Health Organization (WHO).

Iraqi Foreign Ministry Spokesperson, Ahmad Jamal, said that his country launched measures towards initiating a lawsuit in British courts against the Saudi London-based “Asharq Al-Awsat Newspaper”.

Iraqi Shiite militias were massing troops on Monday to cut remaining supply routes to Mosul, Islamic State's last major stronghold in Iraq, closing in on the road that links the Syrian and Iraqi parts of its self-declared “Caliphate”, Reuters reported.

Convoys of military vehicles loaded with Shi'ite paramilitary fighters hurtled across desert terrain in northwestern Iraq towards the Islamic State-held city of Tal Afar, chanting religious slogans and covering their faces to keep out the dust, Reuters reported.

A U.N. peace plan for Yemen seeks to deprive the country's armed Houthi movement of its missile arsenal which Yemeni security sources say includes scores and maybe even hundreds of Soviet-era ballistic missiles pointed at their foes in Saudi Arabia, Noah Browning wrote in his article for Reuters.

Iran said on Tuesday it had sent 11 metric tonnes of heavy water to Oman as part of its obligations under last year's nuclear deal with world powers, agencies reported.

The United States said on Tuesday it had issued a second license to France's Airbus to sell commercial planes to Iran Air, the company said on Tuesday.

Residents of Yemen said that twelve Yemeni civilians were killed by a Saudi-led air strike while riding in a pickup truck in the country's northwest early on Wednesday (November 23, 2016).

A massive suicide blast at a Shiite mosque in Kabul killed at least 27 people Monday and wounded 64 as worshippers gathered for the religious ceremony of Arbaeen Imam Hussein (PBUH), officials said.

A 48-hour ceasefire ended Monday in Yemen after failing to stem violence across the country, with both sides blaming each other for deadly "violations" of the US-backed truce, AFP reported.

A pro-Iranian Shiite group alleged on Tuesday that Nigerian police had shot dead a two-year-old girl after firing into a crowd during a religious procession in the northern city of Kano.

Yemeni Foreign Minister Abdel-Malek al-Mekhlafi said that his country has no knowledge of the deal announced by US Secretary of State John Kerry, announcing a Yemen ceasefire and formation of a new government.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday that Yemen's Houthi group and the Saudi-led coalition fighting it had agreed to a ceasefire in Yemen from Thursday (November 17, 2016).