Tag: Syria
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Suspected IS attack kills 53 in Syria: State media: Monitor
The monitors said IS was taking advantage of the annual harvest of the desert fungus delicacy, which typically runs from February to April, to carry out attacks in remote locations. The IS group did not immediately claim the attack through its normal channels. Syrian state media on Friday reported 53 dead after the attack on…
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Earthquake death toll crosses 45,000; Many still missing in flattened apartments
An exhausted Avcı was later reunited with his wife Bilge and daughter Almıl at a hospital in Mersin. Aid organizations say survivors will need help for months to come after the destruction of so much vital infrastructure. In neighboring Syria, already torn apart by more than a decade of civil war, a large number of…
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Two more people were rescued in Turkey 11 days after the earthquake
For families still in Turkey waiting to repatriate relatives, anger is mounting over what they see as corrupt construction practices and deeply flawed urban development, resulting in thousands of homes and businesses being shattered. Turkey has promised to investigate anyone responsible for the buildings’ collapse and ordered the detention of more than 100 suspects, including…
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Clashes between Syrian government forces and rebels in the quake-hit area
Observatory director Rami Abdulrahman said 235 people had died in Atreb and surrounding areas. More than 4,400 people have been reported killed in the earthquake in the northwest, according to a UN agency, most of the deaths in Syria. Government and rebel forces also clashed in another part of the northwest near the government town…
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Homeless and destitute people focused on helping after the earthquake in Turkey
Footage showed him being carried away on a stretcher covered with a thermal blanket while an emergency worker held an intravenous drip. Neslihan Kilik was rescued after about 10 hours. “We had prepared his grave and we asked the rescuers to stop digging because we were afraid they would damage the bodies under the rubble.…
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Turkey-Syria death toll exceeds 41,000 as UN appeals for earthquake aid
Turkey-Syria death toll exceeds 41,000 as UN appeals for earthquake aid
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Teen pulled from debris in Turkey; Anger smolders after the earthquake
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) said in a report published on Thursday that the potential economic impact of the earthquake in Turkey could result in a loss of up to 1% of the country’s GDP this year. US bank JP Morgan estimated that the direct cost of the destruction of physical structures…
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Three women, two children pulled from rubble in Turkey, some aid reaches Syria
‘really sad’ Across the border, in Syria, relief efforts have been hampered by a civil war that has torn apart the country and divided regional and global powers. “It is clear that the area of greatest concern at the moment is the region of northwestern Syria,” Mike Ryan, executive director of the WHO’s health emergencies…
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Turkey promises rapid reconstruction after earthquake, Syrians seek help
‘Get us out!’ Across the border, in Syria, relief efforts have been hampered by a civil war that has torn apart the country and divided regional and global powers. Although a single border from Turkey to Syria was open after the earthquake, the United Nations did not send aid for several days, citing logistical issues.…
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Syrians pick up the pieces alone after earthquake in war-torn Idlib
A man prayed amid the rubble as a lone digger cleared away the debris. The children chased each other around mounds of ruins and over twisted ledges. ‘Toughest week’ The frontline had been relatively quiet during a decade of conflict – which erupted in 2011 with protests against President Bashar al-Assad that have torn the…
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Britain’s King Charles meets Turkey-Syria earthquake volunteers
Britain’s King Charles met with Turkish and Syrian migrant volunteers in London on Tuesday to express his support after the recent earthquake in Turkey and northwest Syria that killed more than 37,000 people and left thousands homeless. During a visit to West London Turkish Volunteers (WLTV), Charles shook hands with charity workers and chatted with…
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Bangladeshi rescuers recover 4 bodies of a family in Turkey earthquake
Rescue workers from Bangladesh recovered four bodies of a family after an eight-hour operation following earthquakes in Syria and Turkey. He carried out the rescue operation on Tuesday at Gym Hurriyat Mahalesi in Adiyaman city. Joint rescue teams led by the Bangladesh army have so far rescued one person and recovered 19 bodies in quake-ravaged…
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Earthquake death toll nears 40,000, opening new aid route to rebel-held Syria
Fears have grown for survivors on both sides of the border, with the United Nations saying that more than seven million children have been negatively affected between Syria and Turkey, and fears that “many thousands” more were killed. . “It is sadly clear that the numbers will continue to rise,” said James Elder, spokesman for…
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Syrian woman rescues children and bags of memories in ‘miracle’ of earthquake survival
When she felt the first tremors of the earthquake that struck Syria and Turkey last week, Um Kanan woke up her three children and took them to a small closet in her bedroom for shelter, along with a collection of family photographs and documents. The force of the earthquake leveled a fourth-floor apartment in the…
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Earthquake fans anti-Syrian sentiment in Turkey amid desperate circumstances
tensions are rising Turkey, home to some 4 million Syrian refugees, opened its borders in 2011 to people fleeing the civil war raging there. Many are concentrated in the south of the country, close to the Syrian border. In the Turkish city of Gaziantep, worst affected by the earthquake, live about half a million Syrians,…