The World Health Organization and Beijing could have acted faster when COVID-19 first surfaced in China, a group investigating the global response has concluded. In its second report, the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response said that an evaluation of the “chronology of...

Israel’s education minister is banning groups that call Israel an “apartheid state” from lecturing at schools — a move that targets one of the country’s leading human rights groups after it began describing both Israel and its control of the Palestinian territories as a single...

Heavy rains in Syria's Idlib province that started in the night and continued into the day have flooded 110 tents belonging to displaced civilians, affecting 50,000 people as of Monday. Civilians who fled attacks by the Bashar Assad regime and its backer Russia and now live in safe areas...

Counterterrorism operations crippled PKK's drug trafficking as nearly 11 tons of drugs belonging to the terrorist group were seized by the security forces in 2020. As terrorist activities in the region have diminished remarkably, the security forces had the opportunity to focus more on other...