Sand storm hits Sudan's Khartoum city and affect daily life on March 13, 2020.

With over 1,000 personnel, Turkey has launched a new anti-terror operation in three eastern provinces, the Interior Ministry announced on Friday.

Turkey's National Medical Rescue Team (UMKE) members conduct health checks on asylum seekers waiting in hope to cross to Europe in and around the buffer zone located between the Pazarkule-Kastanies border crossing on March 12, 2020 to stem the spread of coronavirus. The coronavirus, officially known as COVID-19, was first detected last December in Wuhan, China but has since spread to more than 105 countries. The global death toll from the virus is nearly 4,300 with more than 118,000 confirmed ca...

Greek security forces protected themselves from tear gas and gas from the Greek side of Turkey-Greece border on March 12, 2020. A video by Anadolu Agency Video News (AAVN) shows Greek border guards using tear gas to disperse the asylum seekers and a large fan just a few meters away from the barbed wire fence. Thousands of asylum seekers have since gone to Turkey's Edirne province -- which borders Greece and Bulgaria -- in the hope of going to Europe. The Greek reaction to the asylum seekers has ...

A Turkish company in central Yozgat province is working full time and at full capacity to produce face masks because of the spread of the deadly coronavirus all around the world. The death toll from the novel coronavirus in the world climbed to 4,637 while confirmed cases hit 126,000 as announced on March 12, 2020.

Turkish Special Operations Police forces continue to patrol along the Turkish-Greek border to prevent push-backs of asylum-seekers to Turkey by Greece, in northwestern Edirne province on March 12, 2020.

Three suspected Daesh terrorists were arrested in Turkey's southern province of Adana on March 12, 2020. The three Syrian nationals were arrested in an anti-terror operation carried out by Turkish police.

Various shots of the deserted area and closed shops after Italian Prime Minister announced new emergency measures to tighten the coronavirus quarantine on on March 11, 2020. Italy close all its shops, bars, restaurants and main commercial activities except essential services in its latest effort to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus.

Greek security forces threw stones at asylum seekers on Wednesday on the border with Turkey.

A Belgian subway passenger wearing a coronavirus mask can be seen in this footage licking his hands and wiping them over a nearby bar, which resulted in the trainbeing taken off service to get disinfected.

Part of a New York City suburb will be placed under containment after officials determined Tuesday it is the site of a 'cluster' of new coronavirus infections.

A Pakistan Air Force F-16 fighter jet crashed in the capital city of Islamabad on Wednesday morning, a spokesman for the air force said.

Greece erected barbed wire barriers along its border with Turkey to prevent new refugees from entering as crowds continue to wait near the gates.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan gently rejected handshake of an official amid coronavirus fear in Brussels ahead of his meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and EU leaders on March 09, 2020.

Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Wuhan, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, on Tuesday, marking the first time he has done so since the epidemic began late last year.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan addresses Turkish community in Brussels ahead of his meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and EU leaders on March 09, 2020.

More than 3,000 asylum seekers have been camped near Turkey's northwestern border with Greece for the last 11 days waiting to cross to Europe. Some asylum seekers are waiting in the buffer zone between the Pazarkule-Kastanies border crossing and the adjacent fenced area. The elderly and children are the worst affected, especially when the temperature drops in the night. The Turkish government is providing them three meals a day in the camps in line with its humane policy toward refugees. On the ...

Various shots from Italian jails on March 09, 2020 as prisoners hold protests against coronavirus precautions across the country.

Libyan bikers start a campaign to promote blood donation countrywide in Tripoli, Libya on March 09, 2020.

Empty shelves are seen in a supermarket in Rome on March 09, 2020. Italy's prime minister announced late Monday that measures to combat the novel coronavirus would be extended nationwide as the country's death toll from the outbreak climbed to 463 and the number of registered cases surged to over 9,000.