All armed elements have left the Sinjar district in Iraq's northern Nineveh province, the country's Joint Operations Command claimed on Thursday. "According to the agreement between the central government and the Iraqi Kurdish Regional Government [KRG], the federal forces are responsible...

A magnitude 5.0 earthquake was recorded in Turkey’s southeastern Siirt province on Thursday morning, according to the country's disaster management agency. The tremor occurred at a depth of 14.02 kilometers (8.7 miles) in the Kurtalan district at 08:45 a.m. local time (0545GMT), the...

World Health Organization's head of emergency services on Wednesday hailed Britain's approval of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. However, Dr. Mike Ryan said more vaccines are needed and until then measures such as wearing masks in public must be followed. Ryan spoke with WHO epidemiologist...

Iran's watchdog body approved a law on Wednesday that obliges the government to halt U.N. inspections of its nuclear sites and step up uranium enrichment beyond the limit set under Tehran's 2015 nuclear deal if sanctions are not eased in a month. In retaliation for the killing last week of...