The Qatari foreign minister will travel to Tehran on Thursday to meet with Iranian officials

Palestinians living in East Jerusalem and the West Bank staged mass demonstrations in solidarity with the detainees following the escape of six key Palestinian security prisoners from Gilboa Prison, Israel's most secure prison in the north, and intelligence operations to find them in the West Bank.

Several civil society and media activists, including Narges Mohammadi, Vida Rabbani, Pouran Nazemi, and Ahmad Reza Haeri, were reportedly detained during a rally in front of the Pakistani embassy against the Taliban in Panjshir on Wednesday.

US Navy's Fifth Fleet announces launch of new unit in the Middle East after years of naval strikes over tensions with Iran

"I am not going to set a date, but we are approaching a point where a return to BRICS does not reproduce the benefits of that agreement," said Secretary of State Anthony Blinken. "But we are not at this point yet."

A 4.5 magnitude earthquake at a depth of 9 km shook the area around Qasr Shirin in Kermanshah