The United States launched air strikes in Iraq and Syria against more than 85 targets linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) and militias it backs, reportedly killing nearly 40 people, in retaliation for a deadly attack on US troops.

The United States does not want a wider war with Iran or the region, the White House said on Monday, adding that the administration believes a single drone was responsible for targeting US service members in Jordan over the weekend.

In the graduation ceremony of a religious school in Khost, Mowlawi Abdul Kabir, said that after the fight against the Soviet Union, the basic goal which was the rule of an Islamic government, was not achieved.

Iraq’s anti-terror resistance groups said Washington's approval of Baghdad's request for the formation of a committee on US troop withdrawal results from the "strikes of resistance" and proves that the US understands nothing but the “language of force”.

The Iranian foreign minister has warned that the risk of a “wider” conflict in the region has sharply increased due to the United States’ all-out support for Israel amid the regime’s genocidal aggression against the besieged Gaza Strip.

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) condemned the United States and Britain on Friday for their military strikes on Yemen.

US and British warplanes, ships and submarines launched dozens of air strikes across Yemen overnight in retaliation against Houthi forces for months of attacks on Red Sea shipping that the Iran-backed fighters cast as a response to the Israeli bombardment of Gaza.

China "stressed that it will never compromise or back down on the Taiwan issue", the ministry said in a readout of the talks in Washington, held Monday and Tuesday, urging the United States to "stop arming Taiwan".

Iraq’s anti-terror group Kata’ib Hezbollah has underscored the unity of the resistance front in the face of US-Israeli plots in West Asia, warning against any attacks on Yemen, Lebanon and other Muslim countries across the region.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry in a second official notice to the US administration sought arbitration over the 2020 assassination of Iran’s top anti-terror commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani in a US drone strike near the Iraqi capital of Baghdad.

Yemen warned Washington that it bears full responsibility for the consequences of a deadly attack by the US Navy on Yemeni boats in the Red Sea.

North Korea launched another long-range ballistic missile on Monday with the potential capability of striking the United States, Seoul and Tokyo officials said, extending a record-breaking number of weapons tests this year that have been condemned by the West.

The Biden administration has used an emergency authority to allow the sale of about 14,000 tank shells to Israel without congressional review, the Pentagon said on Saturday.

Following the sanctioning of two officials of the Islamic Emirate by the US, experts say that by sanctioning the officials of the Islamic Emirate, the Americans want to put pressure on the existing government in Afghanistan to achieve their illegitimate demands in our country.

Apart from ground-penetrating munitions, US has also given Israel several other types of bombs and artillery shells.

While the counter-offensive of the Ukrainian forces has come to a standstill these days, Lloyd Austin, the US Secretary of Defense, arrived in Kyiv on an unannounced visit to meet with the Ukrainian authorities.

The Foreign Relations Committee of the US House of Representatives has announced that it is going to hold a hearing on the issue of examining the policy of the Biden administration towards Afghanistan since the United States left the country.

The US House voted on Tuesday to censure Democratic Representative Rashida Tlaib, Congress’s lone Palestinian-American lawmaker, for comments she made regarding Israel’s ongoing aggression in Gaza.

Two major US-run military bases in Syria’s northeastern province of Hasakah and Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region have been once again targeted by drones, amid smoldering anti-US sentiments in the region over its unconditional support for Israel’s onslaught on the Gaza Strip.

The spokesperson of the US State Department has asked the government of Pakistan to adhere to its commitments in dealing with immigrants and asylum seekers and refrain from deporting them.