Protesters call for death penalty for Amer Fakhoury, who worked as a senior warden at a prison in the country's south that was run by the Israeli-backed South Lebanon Army. Fakhoury was detained after returning to his native Lebanon from the US earlier this month.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards stop vessel en route to United Arab Emirates, alleging it carried 66,000 gallons of illicit diesel fuel.
The summit in Ankara, bringing together countries whose Syrian allies are combatants in a ruinous eight-year war, will focus on the Idlib region, the last remaining territory held by rebels seeking to overthrow Syrian President Bashar Assad. Current fighting in northwestern Syria also raises the risk of a new migrant wave towards Turkey, which currently hosts some 3.6 million Syrian refugees.
A senior White House official tells ABC News that Iran launched a dozen cruise missiles and around 20 drones in the air attacks targeting two key Saudi oil facilities over the weekend. Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen "are claiming credit for something they did not do," the source says. Trump: US is "locked and loaded" and waiting to hear from the Saudis as to how to proceed.
Abu Hafs Al-Maqdisi, leader of the Gaza-based Jaysh al-Ummah al-Salafi group, says suspension of talks with the Taliban "will harm America more than anyone else. It will damage its reputation, unmask its anti-peace policy to the world even more, increase its loss of life and treasure and present its political interactions as erratic."
After second day of raids by what are believed to be Russian jets in northwestern Syria, opposition says new reinforcements from Russian special forces, Iranian-backed militias and elite Syrian army units arriving daily and amassing on front lines in southern Idlib.
Mohammed Badie, outlawed organization's chief, among those sentenced in Cairo criminal court. Court formally drops charges against Egypt's late President Mohammed Morsi, who collapsed and died in a court session in June.
"The departure of US National Security Adviser John Bolton from President Donald Trump's administration will not push Iran to reconsider talking with the US," state news agency IRNA quotes Tehran's United Nations envoy Majid Takht-Ravanchi as saying. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani urged the United States to end its policy of "maximum pressure" on his country.
Around 100 people are injured when walkway collapses, setting off stampede in holy city of Karbala. Shiite Muslims had been marking Ashoura, which commemorates the killing of the Prophet Muhammad's grandson by a rival Muslim faction in what is now Iraq, in 680 AD.
For the crown prince and other Arab leaders, meetings such as this offer an opportunity to strengthen ties with the Trump administration through his evangelical base of supporters. For the evangelical visitors, it is an opportunity for interreligious dialogue and to push for greater Arab support for Israel.
