A second firefighting team from Azerbaijan arrived Wednesday in Turkey to help with massive forest fires in southern provinces that have led to deaths and injuries. The team of 150 people working under the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Azerbaijan was divided into two groups under the coordination of the Mugla Regional Directorate of Forestry to be dispatched to fire zones in the Kavaklidere and Mentese districts in southwestern Mugla province.

Horrifying footage purporting to show millions of scrapped tires being burned in Kuwait went viral on social media, raising concerns on climate hazards.

Turkish actor Ibrahim Celikkol joined in on the efforts to contain the blaze that has been racing toward a power plant in the country's southern coastal Milas district of the Mugla province.

Turkey’s high-tech drones are playing a key role in battling forest fires now raging in various parts of the country. Turkey’s Forestry Directorate affiliated with the Agriculture and Forestry Ministry uses state-of-the-art technology to shorten the detection, response, and extinguishing time to fight forest fires.

Ferocious forest fires, which have been raging across Turkey for the last eight days straight, raced toward a coal-fired power station on Tuesday night, prompting panic and concern among locals in the country's Aegean region.

Archaeologists discovered a grave stele dating back 1,900 years during excavations carried out in the ancient Greek city of Parion located near Kemer village in Turkey's western Çanakkale province’s Biga district.

A strong explosion followed by gunfire hit Afghanistan's capital of Kabul on Tuesday near the defense minister's residence. Witnesses told Anadolu Agency the blast appeared to be caused by a car bomb in the Sherpur neighborhood. Bismillah Khan took to Twitter to reassure that he is well.

Turkish cities are bracing for more scorching weather as an intense heatwave is expected to continue throughout the week. Cameras show the moment daytime temperatures soared to 46 degrees Celsius in Turkey's Aegean Aydın Province.

Two CL 415 firefighting planes sent by Spain arrived Tuesday in Turkey to help the country with massive forest fires in its southern provinces that have led to deaths and injuries, the Spanish Embassy in Ankara said on Twitter. The Spanish group of 27 pilots, who arrived at the Dalaman district of the Aegean Mugla province, prepared their flight plans for the emergency departure of the planes, according to the embassy

Ukrainian firefighting planes arrived to help Turkish firefighters contain wildfires that are ravaging the southern province of Antalya as extinguishing efforts continue at full speed against the ongoing fires ripping through various locations in the country.

Hordes of butterflies, called "white willow butterflies" by locals, dance to their deaths in August every year in Turkey's northeastern Ardahan province. After mating and laying their eggs along the Kura River, the butterflies started to fly to their impending deaths around street lamps, covering the roads in a white sheen.

Turkey dispatched police water cannons to fire-ravaged regions to assist helicopters and fire trucks in the fight against the catastrophic blazes that have been raging for seven days now in the country's southern provinces.

Horrifying footage released by B’Tselem, a human rights group, shows the moment an Israeli settler shot at Palestinians using a rifle belonging to an Israeli soldier in the occupied West Bank. It remains unclear as to how the settler obtained the soldier's weapon in the first place.

A tour bus with Russian tourists on board crashed and fell over in Turkey’s resort city of Antalya, killing three and wounding 16 others, public safety sources said Monday. Traveling on the D-400 highway in the Manavgat district, the bus crashed into the road dividers and went into the opposite lane before toppling, said the sources, who asked not to be named due to restrictions on speaking to the media.

Turkey's first animal rights federation, HAYTAP, has inaugurated a veterinary field hospital to treat animals wounded in the devastating wildfires raging across the coastal Mediterranean town of Manavgat.

Helicopters came and went as they worked around the clock in an attempt to extinguish the blazes wreaking havoc on Turkey’s turquoise coast of Antalya.

Villagers are beside themselves as they scramble to evacuate their animals from flames getting ever closer in the southern Denizli province as fires continue to wreak havoc on southern Turkey.

Efforts to extinguish fires raging through the Turkish paradise of Bodrum, Muğla, are continuing full-speed ahead as the blazes were captured in heartbreaking aerial footage.

Strong wildfires crept closer on a mountain overlooking the eastern North Macedonian city of Kochani, according to footage shared on social media. The flames can be seen engulfing numerous houses along the slope as the city's mayor called on institutions to take action to bring the fires under control.

Stunning aerial shots show the only mosque on Goree Island, overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Dakar, Senegal. With a history spanning centuries, the UNESCO-protected Goree Island was the center of the slave trade in Africa two centuries ago.