The United Nations (UN) warns that millions of people in Myanmar are expected to face hunger in the coming months as food insecurity rises sharply in the Southeast Asian country in the wake of a February military coup.

US-backed SDF militants have shot dead a civilian and injured several others as they tried to suppress a demonstration in Syria’s northeastern city of Hasakah.

Several mortar shells reportedly strike a military base occupied by US forces in Syria’s eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr; no casualties reported.

A major incident has been declared in Birmingham as a spate of stabbings leaves one man dead and seven others injured.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the presence of the United States in West Asia is detrimental to the regional nations.

Iran’s top security official says insecurity in the Middle East stems from the illegitimate presence of the United States and its malicious acts.