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(Reuters) -More than 1,400 people were killed and over 3,100 injured after a 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck Afghanistan around midnight on Sunday.

As rescue efforts continue, here is a look at why Afghanistan experiences frequent tremors, and how their impact can be reduced:

ARE EARTHQUAKES COMMON IN AFGHANISTAN?

Hemmed in by rugged mountains, Afghanistan is prone to a range of natural disasters, but its earthquakes cause the most fatalities, killing about 560 people on average each year and…

The Israeli army launched large-scale arrest campaigns on Tuesday, detaining Palestinian residents of the West Bank cities, including the mayor of Hebron, according to an official statement, Anadolu reports.

Witnesses told Anadolu that 13 people were detained by the Israeli army in the Nablus governorate in the northern occupied West Bank.

One Palestinian was hospitalized after being assaulted and beaten by the army forces in the Kafr Qalil village of Nablus,…

ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said the United States should immediately revise its decision to revoke the visas of Palestinian officials and bar them from attending the United Nations meeting in New York this month.

Washington said last week it would not allow Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to travel to New York, where several U.S. allies are set to recognise Palestine as a state.

The move “does not fit the United Nations’ raison d’etre,” Erdogan told…

ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said he discussed ways to end the Ukraine war with Russia’s Vladimir Putin during talks in China and with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskiy by phone, but that the sides were “not yet ready” for a leaders’ meeting.

Erdogan spoke to reporters aboard his plane returning from China, where he met Putin and then said he called Zelenskiy. He said talks in recent months between Russian and Ukrainian officials in Istanbul showed the path to peace remains…