More than 60 people are killed in Algerian wildfires.

Firefighters in Italy continue to battle wildfires amid an ongoing heatwave.

Wildfires are sweeping across Bolivia's eastern lowlands.

The so-called Dixie Fire had burned across 432,813 acres (175,153 hectares) as of Friday afternoon.

A rapidly spreading wildfire burned homes and forced thousands to evacuate in two heavily wooded counties northeast of Sacramento in Northern California on Wednesday, generating a towering plume of smoke visible from at least 70 miles (110 km) away.

The death toll from wildfires on Turkey's southern coast rises to eight as firefighters battled for a fifth day to contain blazes still raging in coastal resort towns.

Iran’s Defense Ministry says its has deployed firefighting plane and team to join operations to battle forest fires sweeping through Turkey's southern regions.

More than 2,100 firefighters were again struggling to contain the vast Bootleg Fire raging in southern Oregon, near the border with California.

Hand crews backed by water-dropping helicopters struggled on Thursday to suppress a huge wildfire that displaced roughly 2,000 residents in southern Oregon, the largest among dozens of blazes raging across the drought-stricken US West.

Wildfires burnt over 300,000 acres across six states across the western United States on Sunday amid a scorching summer heat wave that blankets millions of residents.