The 2019 National Defense Authorization Act passed by the US Senate yesterday allocates $500 million for Israeli missile programs and $50 million for a joint US-Israeli program for combating the tunnels threat, Globes reports.

US senators have passed a sweeping tax cuts bill, paving the way for Donald Trump's first big legislative victory, BBCreports.

The U.S. Senate on Thursday passed the Magnitsky Act, which targets to introduce visa bans and asset freezes on Russian officials considered by the White House to be guilty of human rights violations, along with the repeal of Jackson-Vanik restrictions which were enforced against the USSR in 1974. Russia criticized the move.

The US Senate recommended that US President Barack Obama study the possibility of imposing the no-fly zone over Syria in an amendment approved on Wednesday.