US President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin have discussed Russia's partial planned troop withdrawal from Syria, the White House says.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called for his country to “redefine” terror and terrorists after a deadly blast rocked the capital Ankara.​

Turkish police have attacked the protesters who were out on the streets of Istanbul to denounce what they called the government’s failure in preventing terrorist assaults in the country.

Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami said that the JCPOA does not prohibit Iran from missile tests and warned it is possible that the US may raise issues that were not required for Iran in the agreement at the United Nations Security Council.

Ayatollah Nouri-Hamadani said that there is no weapon as effective as martyrdom and “no matter how strong the enemies’ bombs and military equipment are, they do not have the ability to defeat us.”

A senior Iraqi Sunni cleric, Shaykh Khalid al-Mulla, said that the Lebanese Islamic Resistance Movement of Hezbollah is targeted because it stands against ISIL terrorists in Iraq and Syria and against Israeli occupation.