Jordan says it welcomes healthy relations with Iran and does not regard the Islamic Republic as a source of threat to its national security.

Algerian legislators have presented a bill to the parliament seeking to criminalize normalization of with Israel, travel to the occupied territories or any direct or indirect contact with Israeli officials.

The Syrian foreign minister says Oman has stood by his country in the fight against terrorism.

Bahrain appoints its first ambassador to Damascus in a decade, in another step in line with Persian Gulf Arab states’ major policy shift toward Syria.