Well over 1,000 civilians have been killed in US-led airstrikes allegedly targeting Daesh Takfiri terrorists in Iraq and Syria over the last 18-months, says an airstrikes monitoring group.

Despite US defense officials’ assessments that Omar al-Shishani, a high-ranking commander of the Takfiri Daesh group in Syria, “likely died” in a US airstrike, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the militant has survived the attack.

Iran says the Israeli regime’s arsenal of nuclear warheads is “a real threat” against regional and international peace and security.

The US has dispatched three nuclear-capable B-2 stealth bombers to the Asia-Pacific region amid rising tensions with China over the South China Sea.