WORLD-Middle East

The United Nations issued a statement stating that its Special Envoy to Syria suffered an eye injury and would limit its activity for a period of time.

Boris Johnson, the Brexiteer who has promised to lead Britain out of the European Union with or without a deal by the end of October, will replace Theresa May as prime minister after winning the leadership of the Conservative Party on Tuesday.

In opinion posted in the USA Bloomberg agency, it said that the major powers have a strong interest in preventing a return to fighting and further instability in the region. They should cooperate.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry announced an emergency meeting on Sunday in the Austrian capital Vienna to discuss the rescue of the Iranian nuclear deal.

The Turkification policy is ongoing in Syria, and exclusion of Syrian refugees from Turkey is still ongoing as well.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said his country wants to establish new International Coalition to protect the Strait of Hormuz, adding that it would include countries from all over the world.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that Russian aircraft, committed Monday morning, a massacre during the targeting of a popular market in the city of Maarat al-Numaan south of Idlib, resulted in the killing 16 and wounding 35 others, some of them in critical status.

The US Sacramento Bay newspaper said that Turkey prosecuting critics of massacres against Kurdish civilians in Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has created only global awareness of the issue.

The Arab coalition aircraft carried out raids on different areas in the provinces of Saada and Ad Dali, while the Houthi forces carried out a suicide infiltration attempt towards residential areas in Sanaa and Hodeidah.

The British Ministry of Defense announced on Sunday that it would send military reinforcements to the Gulf due to increased risk.

Libyan National Army forces are preparing to launch massive attack on Tripoli and called on the capital's youth to prepare for the hour of zero.

Iranian naval guards forced an Algerian oil tanker to change its course towards Iranian territorial waters as it tried to cross the Strait of Hormuz.

The spokesman for the Arab Coalition Forces in Yemen, Colonel Turki al-Maliki, that the coalition forces were able to intercept and shoot down a drone fired by the Houthis from Amran province towards the city of Abha.

British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said Iran was taking a dangerous route after being seized by a British-flagged tanker, saying Iran's moves were a clear challenge to international navigation.

The writer Igor A. Matveev wrote an article to Al-Monitor Website in which he talked about recent contacts between the leaderships of Russia and the United States at the G-20 summit in Osaka and the tripartite Israel-Russia-United States national security meeting in Jerusalem were followed by dynamic “diplomatic traffic” in Damascus.

An article posted in the Middle East website said that Turkey is preparing for possible sanctions from the United States over the purchase of S-400 anti-aircraft missiles, and it is reported that Turkey may face another set of sanctions on a completely different issue.

Arab newspapers today followed news of the participation of Russian troops in the Idlib battles, highlighted the new US strategy for dealing with Turkey

Argentine authorities on Thursday decided to freeze Hezbollah's assets in the country and classified the Lebanese group, blamed for two attacks on its territory, a "terrorist organization."