An analyst says US claim of Iran threat in Iraq is an attempt to justify any possible aggression against the Islamic Republic and that Trump would end up on his own if he wages a war on the country.

Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi hopes things will final end well between Iran and the United States despite rising tensions between the two sides.

The third batch of displaced people from the al-Rukban refugee camp in southeastern Syria have left the site and reached government-held areas.

Two US troops have been killed in Afghanistan, bringing the fatalities to four this year.

Syrian and Russian centers on repatriation of refugees have warned that food and water supplies are drying up at the Rukban refugee camp in southern Syria.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says the US needs Rukban refugee camp in southern Syria to justify its illegitimate military presence in the country.

A Syrian official holds US military forces and their allied militants responsible for the humanitarian crisis affecting displaced people at the Rukban camp.

An Iraqi lawmaker says Daesh leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is in Iraq’s western province of Anbar, and being protected by US military forces.

Iraq’s National Security Adviser Falih al-Fayyadh says Baghdad is opposed to the presence of foreign military bases on the Iraqi soil.

The Russian foreign minister says the “illegitimate” presence of US military forces on Syrian soil contributes to instability in the crisis-hit Arab country.