Turkey, Syria rocked by another earthquake, adding to devastation
A new 6.4 magnitude earthquake on Monday struck parts of Turkey and Syria that were laid waste two weeks ago by a massive quake that killed around 45,000 people.
Syria
6.3-Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Southern Turkey
Another quake struck near a town in hard-hit Hatay Province, collapsing more buildings in a region devastated by the Feb. 6 disaster.
Turkey hit by two more powerful earthquakes two weeks after disaster
Three killed and 213 injured, government says, after quakes of 6.4 and 5.8 magnitude shake southern province of HatayA 6.4-magnitude earthquake and a second measuring 5.8 have hit Turkey’s southern province of Hatay, terrifying those left in a region d…
Thousands dead, millions displaced: the earthquake fallout in Turkey and Syria
Death toll of 47,000 expected to rise and WHO says 26 million people need assistance across both countriesThe figures are unfathomable: 47,000 people dead, thousands of others missing, millions homeless. In minutes, two massive earthquakes that rocked …
Syria calls for urgent action to stop Israeli deadly raids
The Syrian Foreign Ministry has strongly condemned an Israeli air strike on Damascus that, besides inflicting heavy damage to residential areas, killed at least five people, injuring more than a dozen. Damascus has called for “urgent international act…
Israeli strike in Damascus kills 15: monitor
DefenceTalkAn Israeli missile strike killed 15 people and destroyed a residential building in the Syrian capital of Damascus, a war monitor said Sunday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the strike, which hit close to an Iranian cultural cen…
Saudi Arabia says Arab nations need new approach towards Syria
Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister says consensus is building in the Arab world that isolating Syria is not working and that dialogue with Damascus is needed “at some point” to at least address humanitarian issues, including a return of refugees.
Several killed, injured in Israeli raids on Syria
At least five people have been killed, 15 wounded and several residential buildings were damaged in Israeli airstrikes on the Syrian capital Damascus, Syrian state media reported.
At least 53 died from Islamic State attack in Syria, most of them civilians
The attack near the central town of Sukhna on Friday was the deadliest by the extremist group since so far this year, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Dozens killed in Daesh attack in Syria’s Homs: State media
Syrian state media outlets reported as many as 53 people, included 46 civilians and seven soldiers, have been killed in an ambush carried out by the Daesh terrorist group near a central Syrian city.