According to media reports, the rocket hit the house while the family was sitting at their dining table and destroyed most of the house.

As the Syrian civil war is heading towards its sixth year, inhabitants of Aleppo continue their lives under airstrikes and heavy attacks. Aleppo, one of the most war-torn cities on earth, has been facing 10-15 airstrikes every day. The city has been marked by the Syrian army's indiscriminate use of barrel bombs dropped from helicopters, killing thousands of civilians. Hundreds of thousands have been forced to evacuate. But still hundreds of thousands continue to live in the city despite the life...

Protesters in Iran, angered by the execution of a prominent Shiite cleric by Saudi Arabia, ransacked the Saudi Embassy in Tehran on Sunday, setting fire to parts of the building. The fire at the embassy came after protesters in Mashhad, a city in the northeast part of the country, set fire to the Saudi Consulate there. Earlier Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned Saudi authority that they will face “divine vengeance” because of the execution. According to local media reports, hund...

Anti-Trump slogans appeared in the sky over the annual Rose Parade in Californian as five planes wrote the messages "America is great! Trump is disgusting," “Anybody but Trump, US.” The campaign targeting Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump, which coincided with the end of the New Year's Day event that draws hundreds of thousands of visitors to Pasadena, north of Los Angeles, every year, was commissioned by a millionaire real estate developer named Stan Pate. Each year, about 700,...

A group of young people pushed an automobile into the Clemenceau metro station in Brussels, the capital of Belgium. No one was injured in the incident.

Three brothers made a huge 'snowcar' instead of snowman after heavy snow which fell on Istanbul for two days.

Protected historic sites were burnt out during a blaze in Kuşadası town of Aydın province oinf Turkey. The 3.5-hour-long fire destroyed 12 houses in the district.sexenbir

United States' President Barack Obama was driven around the grounds of the White House by comedian Jerry Seinfeld in his latest off-the-wall interview. The 20-minute show features Seinfeld chatting informally with Obama.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan recited the Holy Quran at the grave of a senior Turkish journalist who died of a heart attack in Saudi Arabia.

An injured woman was taken to the hospital by people who carried her for kilometers around ditches excavated by Kurdistan Workers' Party's (PKK) terrorists, which prevented an ambulance from reaching the scene in Hakkari province in Turkey. The woman, who was injured after a fall in her home, was helped by her neighbors in Yüksekova town. Residents of Yüksekova carried the woman for 3 kilometers. She then was taken to the Yüksekova State Hospital by an ambulance which was waiting on the midway. ...

The football players of the Turkish football club, Fenerbahçe, sent 2016 New Year messages in 19 languages in a video to their fans worldwide.

Hasan Karakaya, 58, editor-in-chief of Turkish daily newspaper Yeni Akit, was sent off on his final journey. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu attended his funeral. The two threw earth on the journalist's grave. The senior Turkish journalist died of a heart attack while he accompanied President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on his visit to Saudi Arabia Wednesday.

Crowd outside Medina welcomes Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, chanting “May Allah Protect You Oh Erdoğan!”

A fire broke out late Thursday in a hotel in Dubai, injuring several people, officials said. According to the Dubai Media Office's official Twitter account, the fire began at the 20th floor of the 63-storey "The Address Downtown" hotel, near Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest skyscraper. The office said 14 people were mildly injured, 1 moderately injured and a heart attack was reported due to crowding and smoke at the site. Firefighter squads were working to control the fire and the New Year's ce...

Two Spanish police officers were caught on camera throwing an apparently disabled Moroccan woman from her wheelchair onto the street. The incident was reported to have taken place in the Spanish border town of Beni Ansar in Melilla. The video footage shows the police dumping the Moroccan woman onto the pavement after pushing her in the wheelchair for a while. It is not the first violence incident in Spain. In December, video emerged of a policeman, who asked a refugee to disrobe and then beat hi...

Video footage shows Turkish President Erdoğan's rare visit inside Kaaba as King Salman orders that the doors be opened. The video shows Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan when he was in Mecca Mukarrama on late Tuesday after meeting Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdul-Aziz al-Saud. Saudi Arabia opened the Kaaba door for Turkish President Erdoğan at the instruction of the Saudi King. Turkey's First Lady Emine Erdoğan, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavusoğlu, Energy and Natural Resources Mi...

An unnamed Filipino priest has been criticized by religious authorities over a video in which he was seen conducting Mass while rolling on a hoverboard during Christmas Eve. mThat was wrong," the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Pablo said in a statement through Facebook. "The Eucharist demands utmost respect and reverence. It is the Church's highest form of worship, not a personal celebration where one can capriciously introduce something to get attention," the diocese statement said. “The priest ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan who headed to Jeddah after Riyadh, has made umrah during his official visit to Saudi Arabia. Erdoğan passed to Mecca Mukarrama on late Tuesday after meeting Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdul-Aziz al-Saud. Saudi Arabia opened the Kaaba door for Turkish President Erdoğan over the instruction of the Saudi King. Turkey's First Lady Emine Erdoğan, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavusoğlu, Energy and Natural Resources Minister Berat Albayrak and Economy Minis...

The video footage of the views over the Kaçkar Mountains, from the dizzying heights of Zilkale and Ayder Plateau down to the lush greenery of Çoruh Valley and Uzungöl, shows the stunning mountain ranges of the Black Sea region of Turkey as never before. Matador Network, which produced the content, produces multimedia content that highlights the regions of the world. Matador is a travel publisher, with over 12 million unique monthly visitors. Putting the latest photography, drone, and video techn...

UK Royal Air Force targets Daesh-controlled oilfields in Syria, as part of a strategy by the US-led coalition codenamed Operation Tidal Wave II.