WORLD-Middle East

Iran announced on Monday it had multiplied its uranium production, an Iranian official told Tasnim.

A mass hunger strike in Turkey has entered a critical stage. Despite a recent gesture by Ankara, the strikers, mostly Kurdish inmates, have refused to end the protest launched to denounce the isolation of the leader Abdullah Ocalan.

The Transitional Military Council of Sudan announced an agreement with the forces of the Declaration of Freedom and Change to continue the rounds of negotiations on the transitional period, taking into account the time factor.

The Head of the Department of Commerce Chamber in Riyadh, Ajlan al-Ajlan, warned Saudis against investing in Turkey because of "investment and security risks", stressing that what the Saudis are exposed to in Turkey as investors and tourists will lose confidence in Turkish investment and tourism for many years to come.

A rocket landed in the Green Zone in central Baghdad near the US embassy headquarter, local sources said.

Saudi Arabia's Finance Ministry on Sunday deposited SR 937.5 million ($ 250 million) in the Central Bank of Sudan account.

A ship laden with weapons and military vehicles arrived at the port of Tripoli in militia-controlled Libya from the Turkish port of Samsun on Saturday.

On Saturday, the Sudanese Professionals Gathering urged protesters in Khartoum to stick to sit-ins and carry out a clean-up campaign.

The United Nations said the current military escalation in northwestern Syria threatens the lives of 3 million people, calling for unity to reduce tension in the region.

The Karama Operations Room of the Libyan National Army said that the Turkish warplanes carried out raids on several civilian targets in Gharyan city.

The Egyptian armed forces announced the air force destroyed a number of bunkers and desert shelters used by terrorist elements in the northern Sinai Peninsula and Western Sahara, as well as southern Egypt.

Secret intelligence documents published by the Swedish website of Nordic Monitor revealed the release of Erdogan's regime of the majority of foreign fighters arrested in Turkey between 2014 and 2016 on suspicion of their terrorist activity.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said during his meeting with the US Secretary of State Tuesday in Sochi: "We seek to normalize the full relations with Washington."

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday denied reports that he planned to send 120,000 troops to the Middle East in anticipation of a military confrontation with Iran.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his US counterpart, Mike Pompeo, held talks ahead of their meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

On Monday morning, Israeli army arrested 12 Palestinians during the campaign of arrests in the West Bank, while the army opened fire at Gaza fishermen and farmers during their work.

The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo decided to head for Brussels on Monday, where he would discuss "pressing issues", especially the Iranian issue with European officials, AFP reported.

The United Nations announced that the first days of the redeployment of Houthi forces in 3Yemeni ports went according to plan.