U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has left the Persian Gulf region after four days of talks to help mediate a dispute between Qatar and Saudi Arabia and its allies.

Tillerson on July 13 declined to comment after meeting Qatar's emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, in his second stop in the tiny Gulf Arab state during his trip to the region.

Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, and other countries broke all diplomatic and commercial ties with Qatar over its alleged funding for Islamic extremists and its close ties to regional rival Iran.

The rule of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko is on the brink of collapse, former PM Nikolai Azarov says, noting a growing dissatisfaction with Poroshenko among the Ukrainian elite and his cabinet's failure to improve the economy.

"Everything is heading in the direction that the regime of Petro Poroshenko is nearing its end, changes are likely to happen soon," Azarov, now living in exile in Russia, said in an interview to Russian Izvestia on Thursday.

Azarov cited, among the reasons, persistent calls by several major factions of the Verkhovna Rada (the Ukrainian Parliament) to introduce a provision in Ukrainian law that would allow Poroshenko to be impeached. The bill was initially proposed by former PM Yulia Timoshenko's party and backed by at least three other groups of lawmakers. The latest party to join in the demands is the Radical Party faction chaired by Oleg Lyashko, a populist politician with strong support among Ukrainian nationalists.

UK Home Secretary Amber Rudd has confirmed an already much-delayed report into the foreign funding and support of extremist groups in the UK will be banned from publication for "national security" reasons.

Rudd instead released a parliamentary written answer outlining the details of the report, which was commissioned by former Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron.

"Having taken advice, I have decided against publishing the classified report produced during the review in full," she said. "This is because of the volume of personal information it contains and for national security reasons."

The US-led coalition is developing a database of foreign Daesh fighters that already contains 18,000 names, US special presidential envoy Brett McGurk said in a coalition meeting on Thursday.

Approximately 36,000 foreign fighters have been recruited by Daesh of which of 6,000 are from western countries, according to White House Deputy Assistant to the President Sebastian Gorka.

He also said that Daesh uses the idea of a last opportunity to engage in jihad before Judgement Day as a propaganda tool to recruit foreign fighters.

"We are building a global database of known foreign fighters, now with 18,000 verified names with the support of our Coalition partner Interpol," McGurk announced.

In interview with CBN News on the Hamburg summit President Trump speaks of Russia and its President Vladimir Putin with a respect and realism shown by scarcely any other leading US politician. In the latest Crosstalk in which I appeared with Peter Lavelle I made the point at the very end that much of the US's anger towards Russia comes from a US belief that the US won the Cold War and that Russia refuses to behave like a defeated country by submitting to this 'fact'.

I said that if there is to be any future to the US-Russia relationship the US has to move beyond this. I also said that much of the anger in the US towards Donald Trump is precisely because he has had the realism to move beyond it.

The families that lived in the heavily damaged neighborhoods of the western part of the city are unlikely to be able to return home for months, if not longer, says Lise Grande, Deputy Special Representative of the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq.

People are starting to return to the Iraqi city of Mosul after Iraqi government declared victory over ISIS in the area on Monday. However, the UN says it will take billions of dollars and years to rebuild the city, as most of Mosul has been devastated by nine months of fighting.

According to Human Rights Watch, the coalition used a number of weapons that are inaccurate and could be "unlawfully indiscriminate if used in heavily populated areas." Moreover, there is another liberation campaign underway now. US-backed rebels prepare to seize ISIS Syrian stronghold of Raqqa. The UN says between 30,000 - 50,000 people are now trapped in the city. Almost 200,000 have already been displaced.

A federal judge in Detroit, Michigan has stopped the deportation of 1,400 Iraqi nationals, many of them Christians, asserting jurisdiction in the case despite objections from the US Justice Department.

"This Court concludes that to enforce the Congressional mandate that district courts lacks jurisdiction - despite the compelling context of this case - would expose Petitioners to the substantiated risk of death, torture, or other grave persecutions before their legal claims can be tested in a court," wrote US District Judge Mark Goldsmith in a 24-page opinion on Tuesday, according to Al Jazeera.

Many of the Iraqis, including 114 rounded up in raids in the Detroit area last month, are Christians who fear attacks because of their religion if they return to Iraq. The government says they face deportation because they committed crimes in the US.

Goldsmith has already blocked the deportations for two weeks while he considered whether he had jurisdiction. The Justice Department insists a US District Court judge doesn't have jurisdiction in the immigration matter.

Some of those arrested came to the US as children and committed their crimes decades ago, but they had been allowed to stay because Iraq previously declined to issue them travel documents.

One of the questions is how deportation would work to a country that is embroiled in war, where cities and towns are occupied by Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL).

"The biggest concern here is the vast majority of the Chaldeans, Syrians and Christians come from what is known as ISIS territory. The city of Mosul, which is the largest Christian village in Iraq, was the first raided by ISIS. Their Christian brethren have left these areas," attorney Clarence Dass told RT. "For them to return for sure will be to face discrimination, torture, if not the death penalty when they get there."

A lot of these people wear their Christian faith on their bodies in the form of tattoos, with scriptures on their wrists, or crosses on their forearms, he said. "They are a very religious people," Dass added.

US President Trump has revealed in an interview with CBN News that he and Russia's President Vladimir Putin "get along very well" and "that's a good thing." However, he thinks Putin would have been happier if Hillary Clinton had won the elections.

While the goals of President Putin are quite different from his, Donald Trump told CBN News on Wednesday, since the both statesman seek prosperity for their countries, they can find some common ground.

"Well, he wants what's good for Russia, and I want what's good for the United States. And I think in a case like Syria where we can get together, do a ceasefire, and there are many other cases where getting along can be a very positive thing, but always Putin is going to want Russia and Trump is going to want the United States and that's the way it is," Trump said.

The very first face to-face meeting between the two leaders on the sidelines of the G20 summit proved to be fruitful and helped them to "get along," Trump stated.

"Sometimes you're not going to get along on things and sometimes you will. But we had a good meeting, it was a face-to-face meeting, it was a long meeting," Trump said. "People said, 'Oh they shouldn't get along.' Well, who are the people that are saying that? I think we get along very, very well. We are a tremendously powerful nuclear power, and so are they. It doesn't make sense not to have some kind of a relationship."

Both the Kremlin and the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry have confirmed that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin discussed bilateral relations by telephone on Monday evening.

According to an official statement published by Venezuela's Foreign Ministry, the two heads of state discussed their mutual cooperation in "security and defence, energy, agriculture, science and technology, and culture". Meanwhile the Kremlin stated that the two leaders had discussed "various practical questions in Russian-Venezuelan cooperation. In particular they discussed the implementation of the mutually beneficial joint projects in the fuel and energy sector".

The government in Caracas said President Putin had also emphasized the commercial links between the two nations and the importance of an upcoming High Level Intergovernmental Commission between Russia and Venezuela, due to be held this coming October in Moscow.

The Kremlin also confirmed that Maduro had updated the Russian president on the current political situation in Venezuela, where violent anti-government unrest has claimed 103 lives to date.

"President Putin recognized President Maduro's courage and efforts to maintain stability in the country and expressed his rejection of those political forces, both domestic and abroad, that do not recognize the constitutional order of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela," reads the Venezuelan Foreign Minister communique.

The meeting was held at Venezuela's request, and just five days after Moscow's Latin American department reiterated its support for dialogue in Venezuela and rejected outside intervention in the oil-rich South American country. Russia and Venezuela have maintained strong diplomatic and commercial ties since the Bolivarian Revolution came to power under former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Frias in 1999.

German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel has lashed out at Chancellor Angela Merkel over the G20 riots, accusing her fellow Christian Democratic Union (CDU) politicians of "passing the buck" by calling on Hamburg's mayor to resign.

Following the reaction to the violent scenes in Hamburg during the July 7-8 G20 summit, Gabriel, of the center-left Social Democrats (SPD) accused Merkel's party of unfairly targeting Hamburg Mayor Olaf Scholz, also a Social Democrat.

Hamburg CDU politicians "who are calling on [Scholz] to resign... must also demand the resignation of Angela Merkel," Gabriel said Tuesday, noting that Merkel is the one who chose Hamburg, her birthplace, as the site for the summit.