A State Department spokesman stressed Washington's strong support for the Ibrahim Pact

The US Department of Justice has announced that Mehrdad Ansari, an Iranian citizen living in the UAE and Germany, has been sentenced to 63 months in prison and three years in prison for violating US sanctions. According to the statement, Ansari was involved in a plan to send sensitive military units

Three former US intelligence agents hired by the UAE as hackers to spy on a secret unit of the UAE's enemies have been accused of plotting to break US hacking laws. They were also accused of violating restrictions on the export of military equipment

Lebanon's resigning finance minister Ghazi Wazni said Lebanese groups agreed that the International Monetary Fund's program was the only solution. Concludes

"We have not carried out an airstrike in Bokmal in the past few hours," said a spokesman for the US-led International Coalition against ISIL, following reports of an airstrike on two Iranian-backed militant vehicles on the Iraqi-Syrian border.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said in an interview that Israel intends to cooperate with its allies against Iran, but even if it has to act alone, it will prevent the Islamic Republic from acquiring a nuclear weapon.