Iraq has ramped up the deployment of its guards on the Kurdistan region’s border with Iran.

France has deployed 45,000 police and several armored vehicles to quell protests across the country over the police killing of a teenager for a traffic violation and arrested nearly 1,000 protesters.

Russia has started exercises with the Yars intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) system in a bid to show off its nuclear strength, following the suspension of the country's participation in an arms control treaty with the United States.

India says the situation with China in the western Himalayan region of Ladakh remains “fragile” and “dangerous”.

US State Department spokesperson Ned Price says Washington is closely monitoring Iran’s plans to deploy naval forces to the strategic Panama Canal, which connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean.

A delegation of Israeli military experts is reportedly stationed to the strategic Yemeni island of Socotra.

A new batch of US military forces has arrived in Yemen’s southeastern province of al-Mahrah, according to local sources.