At least 16 people have been killed during a week of unrest in Iran, rights groups said on Sunday, as protests over soaring inflation spread across the country prompting violent clashes between demonstrators and security forces.
North Korea launched ballistic missiles on Sunday, the day the leader of rival South Korea starts a state visit to China, Pyongyang's chief ally, and just hours after the U.S. attacked Venezuela.
Three rockets struck the Damascus district of Mazzeh on Saturday, landing near a military airport and damaging a mosque and a telecommunications building, according to a statement by city authorities.
The fall of Nicolás Maduro is not only a moment of relief for the people of Venezuela. It is a strategic defeat for terrorism, organized crime, and the shadow networks that thrived under his rule.
Fresh demonstrations were reported Saturday night in Tehran, while violence intensified in parts of western Iran, marking the eighth day of nationwide unrest, according to Iranian media on Sunday.
Venezuela should be understood on its own terms before it is read as a symbol. For years the country has been trapped in a downward spiral marked by economic collapse mass migration weakened institutions and a ruling system that survived not by legitimacy but by insulation.
Several pro-Iranian terrorist groups, led by Hezbollah, Hamas, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, on Saturday condemned a U.S. operation carried out overnight in Venezuela, which reportedly involved strikes in the capital and the capture and evacuation of President Nicolás Maduro.
The United Arab Emirates said on Saturday it was deeply concerned by ongoing escalation in Yemen after Saudi-backed government forces swept into areas seized last month by UAE-backed southern separatists seeking independence.
Saudi Arabia on Saturday invited “all southern factions” of Yemen to attend dialogue talks in Riyadh, seeking to halt escalating clashes between southern separatists and other members of the internationally backed coalition.
The United States attacked Venezuela and captured its long-serving President Nicolas Maduro on Saturday, with U.S. President Donald Trump promising to put the country under American control for now, even as Venezuelan officials vowed defiance.
The United Arab Emirates confirmed on Friday that its remaining military forces have fully withdrawn from Yemen, while urging all parties to work toward de-escalation in the conflict-hit country.
Yemen's southern separatist movement said on Friday it aims to hold a referendum on independence from the north in two years following its seizure of swathes of the country last month in a move that triggered a major feud between Gulf powers.
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