Hizbullah has allegedly constructed a runway that consists of a single unpaved strip with a length of 670 meter and width of 20 meter in the Bekaa town of Hermel to operate its drones.

IHS Jane's Defense Weekly said in a report that the area is remote and unpopulated.

A Swiss business delegation will go to Iran this weekend in the first such visit in 10 years to try and expand trade ties, the finance ministry said Friday.

The team, comprising executives from the pharmaceutical, green energy and services sectors, will be led by Livia Leu, who served as Swiss ambassador to Tehran between 2009 and 2013, it said.

Iran summoned the Saudi envoy Friday to protest after his country's warplanes allegedly turned back humanitarian aid flights headed for war-torn Yemen, whose airspace is controlled by a Saudi-led coalition.

Aboard the flights were women and children who had been treated in Iran after being wounded in "terrorist" attacks before the coalition launched its air campaign against Tehran-backed rebels in Yemen last month, state news agency IRNA said.

Bahraini authorities sentenced an Iraqi man to three years in prison on charges including rioting and joining an "unauthorized" protest in the capital Manama, official media reported.

The small Sunni-ruled kingdom has seen frequent unrest since 2011 when security forces crushed protests led by the Shiite majority demanding a constitutional monarchy and an elected prime minister.

Saudi-led coalition air strikes hit a camp housing rebel troops in Yemen's third city Taez on Friday, after a night of clashes and raids throughout the war-hit country, residents said.

Warplanes struck the camp, which was being used by a rebel army unit loyal to ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh in central Taez, they said. 

Ex-PM Saad Hariri held talks Friday with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden in Washington and noted that his Mustaqbal movement is fighting the “extremism” of Hizbullah and other groups.

A statement issued by Hariri's office said the White House meeting focused on the situation in Lebanon and the latest developments in the region, “particularly what is happening in Syria, Iraq and Yemen."

Nuclear powers join non-nuclear nations on Monday to launch a conference on non-proliferation, buoyed by the Iran deal but alarmed by slow-moving U.S.-Russian disarmament.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will address the conference that reviews the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and he may meet on the sidelines to discuss the hard-fought Iran deal with Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.

An Iranian convoy of ships suspected of carrying weapons for Huthi rebels in Yemen has turned around and headed north, away from the war-torn country, U.S. defense officials said Thursday.

The move came after the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier and other American warships deployed off Yemen's coast to track the Iranian flotilla and possibly prevent any arms deliveries to the Iran-backed Shiite rebels. 

The United States said Thursday that any deal reached with Iran to curb its nuclear ambitions would be "fundamentally different" from a pact sealed with North Korea that later unraveled.

"The restrictions, inspections and verifications measures imposed on Iran by a comprehensive plan of action will go far beyond those placed on North Korea in the 1990s and the 2000s," said acting State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf.

Yemeni Foreign Minister Riyadh Yassin on Thursday accused Iran of trying to break a naval blockade on his country aimed at cutting off supplies to Shiite rebels.

In a joint news conference with his Bahraini counterpart Khalid Al-Khalifa, Yassin said "Iran is carrying out desperate attempts to violate the naval blockade on Yemen."