Iran said Monday the head of the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog, Rafael Grossi, will visit Tehran "in the coming days", amid a row over uranium enrichment levels in the Islamic republic.

The Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said earlier this month it was in discussions with Tehran after Bloomberg News reported that the watchdog's inspectors in Iran had found uranium enriched to 84 percent purity.

A Turkish drone attack Monday in northern Iraq killed at least three fighters from the minority Yazidi community affiliated with the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Iraqi Kurdish officials said.

"A drone from the Turkish army targeted a vehicle" in the region, killing an officer and two combatants from the Yazidi Sinjar Resistance Units, a statement from the Kurdistan region's anti-terrorist squad said.

A 5.6 magnitude earthquake hit eastern Turkey on Monday, killing one person and wounding dozens others while causing some damaged buildings to collapse, the government's disaster agency said. 

The epicenter of the tremor was the Yesilyurt district in the Malatya province, which was hit by the February 6 earthquake that killed over 44,000 people in Turkey and thousands more in neighboring Syria. 

Banks in Switzerland are holding a substantial amount of the millions of dollars Lebanese central bank chief Riad Salameh is accused of embezzling, Swiss media reported on Sunday.

Salameh, 72, faces investigations related to suspicions of money laundering and illicit enrichment in Lebanon and abroad after he amassed a fortune in the country mired in financial crisis.

Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry arrived Monday in Damascus, the latest example of Arab outreach to Syria's internationally isolated government since it and Turkey were hit by a devastating earthquake.

Shoukry's trip shows "solidarity with Syria in the face of the consequences of the earthquake", said the official news agency SANA, adding he was welcomed at Damascus airport by his counterpart Faisal Mekdad.

Jordan is to host a "political-security" meeting between Israel and the Palestinians on Sunday to try to restore calm in the occupied territories after deadly violence, a government official said.

French President Emmanuel Macron said Saturday he would visit China in April, and urged Beijing to pressure Russia to end the war in Ukraine.

At least four Yemeni soldiers have been killed in clashes with Iran-backed Huthi rebels in the war-torn country's north, an army official said Sunday.

China has called for urgent peace talks as it released its plan to end the war in Ukraine, but several Western powers rebuffed the proposals while warning against Beijing's closening ties to Moscow.

A Palestinian died Friday after being wounded a day earlier in clashes with Israeli forces in the south of the occupied West Bank, a Palestinian hospital official said.

Mohammed Ismail Jawabreh, 22, died after being shot in the head on Thursday "during clashes with occupation forces" in Al-Aroub camp north of Hebron, said the official at the city's Al-Ahly hospital, requesting anonymity as they were not authorized to speak to the media.