There was a rise in civilians killed and injured in Afghanistan following the start of peace negotiations in September, according to a report released by the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and the UN Human Rights Office on Tuesday.

A report by the American website Insider revealed a new direction by Saudi Arabia and its Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman regarding Christians in the Kingdom.

After the release of political prisoners on the eve of the victory of the revolution, and the subsequent release of Massoud Rajavi (a central member of the Mojahedin-e- Khalq Organization) in January of that year, members of the organization began to define their alignments with other groups.

Media reports say, the government negotiating team insists that a ceasefire should be at the center of the negotiations, whereas the Taliban negotiators press for an agreement on a government first, followed by ceasefire dialogue.

At the first anniversary of the assassination of top Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and Iraq’s Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, many international figures released messages of commemoration.

Despite the fact that so far no individual or group claimed responsibility for the attack, Saudi and Hadi government’s officials attributed it to the Ansarullah resistance movement in a bid to prevent early collapse of the newly-formed government and thus cover up the big defeat in Yemen’s political scene.

As the time nears when the Iraqi government should present the 2021 budget to the parliament, the country’s currency market is experiencing turbulence. Media and economists talk about the government’s plan to set the budget based on the price of 1,450 Iraqi dinars for a US dollar.

In the last weeks of Trump’s presidency, it seems that the American administration has put its focus on West Asia policy as senior American political and military leaders intensify their visits to the region.

For example, the Saudi minister of state for foreign affairs, Adel al-Jubeir, has said the kingdom reserves the right to arm itself with nuclear weapons if Iran cannot be stopped from building atomic arms.

To encourage the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain towards normalization with Israel can in fact be taken as a result of US failure in materializing the deal of century.

Analysis: Anti-American front makes stunning comeback in Bolivia. Luice Arce, Bolivian Movement towards Socialism (MTS) candidate and a close ally to the former President Evo Morales, has won the presidential election in the country by securing 52 percent of the votes in what is seen by many as another defeat to the US that has pushed to uproot the anti-imperialism stream in the Latin American nation.

With the start of the Iraqi imposed war in 1980, religious minorities of Iran rushed to help the people protect the country and defend their homeland, symbolizing the national solidarity and unity.

After a set of compromising moves by some Arab states marked by normalization with Tel Aviv while the Israeli violations against the Palestinian regions continue, Palestine officials have unveiled a plan to hold general election.

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the beginning of the war Imposed by the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein against Iran.

Since being elected as Iraq’s Prime Minister in May, Mustafa al-Kadhimi has embarked on highly active foreign policy and diplomacy. Particularly by visiting Iran and also the US in the past two months, al-Kadhimi showed that he has a serious resolution to activate Iraq in the foreign policy area.