Russian President Vladimir Putin warned on Sunday that further Western attacks on Syria would bring chaos to world affairs, as Washington prepared to increase pressure on Russia with new economic sanctions. Source: Reuters
The unrest in southern Iraq is sending nervous jitters in Kuwait, as bloody protests in neighbouring Basra province continue to spread over poor government services and corruption and inch closer to the border. Source: The New Arab
A senior Iranian oil official urged U.S. President Donald Trump not to use the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve to push prices lower, and instead drop sanctions on Iran’s crude exports. Source: Bloomberg
Italy’s far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said during a visit to Moscow on Monday that he wanted to see EU sanctions against Russia dropped “by the end of the year”. Source: The Local
