A fire sparked by an oxygen tank explosion killed at least 82 people and injured 110 at a hospital in Baghdad that had been equipped to house COVID-19 patients, an Interior Ministry spokesman said on Sunday. "We urgently need to review safety measures at all hospitals to prevent such...

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — The systematic killing and deportation of more than a million Armenians by Ottoman Empire forces in the early 20th century was “genocide,” the United States formally declared on Saturday, as President Joe Biden used that precise word after the White House had...

SRINAGAR, India — For the third day in a row, India set a global daily record with 346,786 coronavirus cases. That increased India’s total to more than 16 million cases, behind only the United States. The Health Ministry reported another 2,624 deaths in the past 24 hours, pushing...

Kurdish security forces on Saturday have handed over the Russian military police 3 bodies of pro-regime National Defense militia who were killed in the past 72 hours clashes in Qamishli city, sources told Zaman al-Wasl.  The calm in the northeastern city followed a Russian-brokered...