A number of photos went viral on social media on Sunday, showing a recent meeting between Iraqi president Barham Salih and his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi with only the Egyptian flag placed behind the two leaders in Sharm El-Sheikh. The absence of the Iraqi flag has sparked outrage from activists, Reuters reported.

Heavy snow blanketed Istanbul for a second day on Monday, turning the city into a winter wonderland by creating magical scenes.

A stray cat is adopted by over 600 students at a school in central Turkey. A total of 623 students of Namık Kemal Secondary School are looking after the cat named after their school “Namık'. The school administration and students raised money to call a veterinarian for Namık's necessary vaccines.

More Vietnamese soldiers and police officers were seen patrolling streets and possible venues for the upcoming North Korea-U.S. summit in Hanoi on Monday. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump will meet in Hanoi on Wednesday (February 27) and Thursday (February 28), hoping to build on a commitment they made at their first meeting, in Singapore in June.

At least 150 people have died from drinking toxic bootleg liquor in a northeastern state of India, the second such tragedy in the country this month, with many more hospitalised as authorities try to pinpoint the source and round up perpetrators.

Turkish gendarmeries escort three PKK terrorists who were arrested in Izmir, Canakkale and Istanbul, on February 24, 2019 in Diyarbakir. In a statement, Diyarbakir Governorship in eastern Turkey said that anti-terror teams of gendarmerie arrested three suspects who reportedly joined the PKK terror group in 2015.

A Syrian couple, who migrated to Turkey and settled in Gaziantep due to the civil war in their country, are trying to make a living from calligraphy.

The first edition of International Eurasia Book Festival kicks off on February 23, 2019 in Istanbul, bringing together many national and foreign publishing houses. The festival, of which Anadolu Agency is the global communication partner, is supported by Turkey's Culture and Tourism Ministry, Ministry of National Education, Turkish broadcaster TRT and the Istanbul Chamber of Commerce. The fair being held under the theme A Long Story will end on March 3.

Saudi Arabia appointed Prince Khalid bin Salaman, the king's son, deputy defence minister and named Princess Reema bint Bandar bin Sultan to replace him as ambassador to the United States, the state news agency said on Saturday.

Hundreds of voters headed to polling stations to cast their ballots in Nigeria's presidential election on Saturday. Multiple explosions were heard in Nigeria's northeastern Borno state early Saturday hours before the general polls were due to open, an official said. Locals said the explosions occurred at around 6.00 a.m. local time (0500GMT). Last Saturday, at least 11 persons were killed in a suicide attack on a mosque in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state.

The Turkish Armed Forces shared on social media platforms the breathtaking footage of Turkish military's annual Winter-2019 military exercises.

Dozens of Palestinians broke the chains placed by occupation forces and opened the Al-Rahma Gate (Gate of Mercy) to perform Friday prayer at Al-Aqsa Mosque Compound, after the continued closure by Israeli police in Jerusalem on Friday. The Israeli authorities closed the mosque in 2003. In 2017, an Israeli court upheld the closure order.

On a frigid night in Chicago, Illinois, with the temperature hovering around - 40F (-40C), a 59-year-old Turkish-American Muslim man stepped out on the streets to help the homeless. Halil Demir, executive director of the Zakat Foundation of America, along with 20 of its staff distributed bags to hundreds of homeless people on the city's South Side.

Colombia destroyed an infamous apartment building which was once home to drug trafficker Pablo Escobar in a controlled implosion on Friday, after the site became a tourist destination. The 'Monaco' apartments, where Escobar lived in the 1980s, were a symbol of evil, Medellin Mayor Federico Gutierrez told journalists.Gutierrez lamented that the 8-story building had become a destination for tourists on much-maligned 'narco-tours', which take visitors around sites related to the history of drug tra...

Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar was welcomed by acting U.S. Secretary of Defense Patrick M. Shanahan at the Pentagon in Washington, DC on February 22, 2019.

Watch as this red-haired girl savors and chomps down on this monster lobster bite after crunchy bite!

Surveillance cameras captured the moment of an unusual guest pacing through a popular mall before opening hours early in the morning on Wednesday in India's Thane city, the Times of India reported.

The 41st International Tourism Fair kicks off in Belgrade, Serbia on February 21, 2019. Serbian Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelkova, Trade and Telecommunications Minister Rasim Ljajic and Belgrade Mayor Zoran Radojicic speak at the opening of the fair on Thursday.

Turkey sends military reinforcements including tanks and commandos to its southern Hatay province near Syrian border ahead of a possible counter-terrorism operation in northern Syria on February 21, 2019.

Dozens of people gathered on Friday in Jerusalem's landmark al-Aqsa Mosque to hold a funeral prayer in absentia for nine youth who were executed by the Egyptian authorities without a fair trial on Wednesday for alleged involvement in the 2015 assassination of Attorney-General Hisham Barakat. Barakat was killed in June 2015 in Cairo when a car bomb struck his convoy.