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Search operation continues for the possible survivors in quake-hit southeast Turkey and northern Syria. At least 36,000 people have been killed and tens of thousands injured after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck Turkey and Syria.
The decision is the first time that President Bashar al-Assad has agreed to the cross-border delivery of humanitarian aid to opposition-held territory since the civil war began.
Since a disastrous earthquake a week ago, little international aid has come to the hard-hit northwest of Syria, which is under the control of opposition forces.
The Burnaby Urban Search and Rescue team deployed last week to help find victims of devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, will return to B.C., Tuesday.
UN announces regime leader’s acceptance of border crossing points for humanitarian aid to reach rebel-held provinceSyrian rebel leader pleads for outside help a week on from earthquakesThe Syrian leader, Bashar al-Assad, has agreed to open two border c…
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North-west Syrian province was a place of last resort for people fleeing war – then came Covid, cholera and new catastrophe“We were asleep when the earthquake struck – I thought it was an airstrike so I ran outside,” said Mohammed Hadi, weeping gently …
Former al-Nusra Front chief keen to show scale of crisis in Idlib province and play down past links to al-QaidaA Syrian rebel leader with a $10m (£8.3m) US government bounty on his head has appealed for urgent international aid to help the north-west p…
More than 31,600 people in Turkey and more than 3,500 in Syria have died in the earthquake, the deadliest in Turkey since 1939.
Reports of rescues were coming less often as the time since the quake reaches the limits of the human body’s ability to survive without water, especially in freezing temperatures.