At least five people have been killed in a deadly explosion near the US embassy in the Afghan capital of Kabul, local officials said.

"It is incumbent upon Muslims from all sects to be more discreet over the plots hatched by extremist groups," said Seminary instructor in Isfahan Province.

Top manager in Iran’s western Azerbaijan Province said participation of Shia Sunni Muslims in Abrahamic Hajj is a kind of unveiling the hostile intrigues against Islam.

Iranian Member of Parliament highlighted Islamic unity as a philosophy behind Hajj saying that Hajj rituals increase the fraternity among Muslims.

Daesh militants and their families have begun withdrawal from Qalamoun strategic region close to the border between Syria and Lebanon, leaving the area for eastern parts of Lebanon as a result of deal to end the presence of Takfiri group in the region.

Harvey’s downpours will continue over Texas and Louisiana and slowly drift northward through the end of August, exacerbating the unprecedented flooding disaster that continues to unfold.

"Regional nations are in charge of their own territories and no country can determine the fate of the Syrian people," ​Iran's deputy foreign minister for Arab and African affairs underlined.

Iraqi government forces have found a detention center in western parts of Tal Afar formerly used by Daesh terrorists to jail and torture the detainees.

​Iran says Russia’s Gazprom has presented its technical proposals for the development of two major oil fields in areas close to the border with Iraq.

Secretary General of Hezbollah movement, Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah, says Daesh terrorists had no choice but evacuation of Syria, Lebanon border regions and submission to resistance fighters.

"No obligation stands beyond the historic nuclear agreement reached between Iran and the P5+1 group of countries is acceptable to the Islamic Republic," stressed ​the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), Ali Akbar Salehi.