Tag: Syria
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Death toll from earthquake in Turkey and Syria tops 1,300
In Afrin, a Syrian opposition-held city, rescue workers from the White Helmets response organization searched for people trapped in a collapsed building in the pre-dawn darkness. Only by torchlight did they pull out a man in a white vest and black pants from the wreckage and take him for medical treatment. In the border town…
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Turkey Earthquake: International Support and Offers of Assistance
Turkey Earthquake: International Support and Offers of Assistance
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Massive earthquake in Turkey, Syria in frame
Massive earthquake in Turkey, Syria in frame
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Powerful Syria earthquake kills dozens, injures hundreds
A powerful earthquake struck northern and western Syria early Monday, killing dozens and injuring hundreds, state media said, as rescuers battled heavy rain and sleet and searched for survivors in the rubble of collapsed buildings. are doing. State news agency SANA said more than 100 people were killed and more than 200 wounded in the…
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Syria weakens the official exchange rate
Syria weakened its official exchange rate to 4,522 Syrian pounds per dollar, while the black market rate used for most economic activity was around 6,500, a central bank statement said on Monday. The official rate was earlier set at 3,015. An economic crisis in the country has resulted from years of conflict, Western sanctions, a…
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Israeli attack on Damascus airport kills four fighters: monitors
Israeli attack on Damascus airport kills four fighters: monitors
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Syria fuel crisis slows life in Damascus
Bassam Kalaji, head of the bakers’ association, told a local radio station last week that half of the capital’s private bakeries had stopped work because of the shortage. Abu Mohammed, 25, said he used firewood to run his Damascus bakery. “The crisis has been going on for months, but I never thought that one day…
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Islamic State says its leader killed, successor named – audio message
Abu al-Hasan al-Hashmi al-Qureshi, the leader of the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group, was killed in fighting, its spokesman said in an audio message posted on an affiliated Telegram channel. He added that the group has chosen Abu al-Hussein al-Husayni al-Qurayshi to replace him. The spokesman said that Abu al-Hasan al-Hashmi al-Qurayshi was killed “fighting…
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iPad becomes latest weapon
Some reports suggest that Syrian rebels fighting to oust President Bashar Al Assad are using iPad application to fire mortar shells. The rebels are backed by some western countries along with some neighboring countries. But they are still struggling against well equipped government forces. Necessity is the mother of invention. The rebels have invented a…
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3 women accept Nobel Peace Prize
Three women who fought injustice, persecution as good as passionate assault in Liberia as good as Yemen supposed a 2011 Nobel Peace Prize upon Saturday, job on repressed women worldwide to climb up opposite masculine supremacy. “My sisters, my daughters, my friends — find your voice,” Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf pronounced after pciking up her…