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HATAY - Rescuers in Turkey and Syria braved frigid weather, aftershocks and collapsing buildings Tuesday, as they dug for survivors buried by an earthquake that killed more than 5,000 people. Disaster agencies said several thousand buildings were flattened in cities across a vast border region -- pouring misery on an…

Before dawn on Monday, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck parts of Turkey and Syria. Hundreds of buildings were toppled and at least 3,400 people were killed. The death toll is expected to rise as rescuers search for the hundreds believed to be trapped under the rubble. “Because the debris removal…

LONDON: Three Americans who were detained by the Iranian government for over a year are suing their former captors, arguing that they are owed damages by the Tehran regime for the suffering and torture they endured while being imprisoned on baseless charges of espionage. The trio — Sarah Shourd, Shane…

Since 2013, Russian forces, alongside Syrian regime forces, have been intensively bombing civilian areas in northwestern Syria. Despite several ceasefire agreements signed between 2013 and 2021, the Russian military has still been dropping illegal munitions and has carried out thousands of air strikes targeting civilian areas. Our Observer, who lives…

Updated 23 hours ago · Published on 22 Jul 2022 9:40PM · A Syrian man walks next to a destroyed house following a Russian air strike on the outskirts of the rebel-held city of Jisr al-Shughur in Syria's northwestern province of Idlib on July 22, 2022. – AFP pic, July…

Thousands of protesters in war-torn Syria's rebel enclave of Idlib on Tuesday marked 11 years since the start of an anti-government uprising, buoyed by the global outcry over Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Gathered on the main square in the northwestern city of Idlib, more than 5,000 people took part in…

Syrian regime shelling killed six civilians including women and children on Saturday in Idlib province, the country’s last main jihadist and rebel bastion, a war monitor said. An AFP photographer at the scene reported seeing several bodies being taken away from a wrecked home in Maarat al-Naasan, an area close…

IDLIB: A group led by Syria's former Al-Qaida affiliate on Sunday denied it knew the head of the Islamic State group, killed in a US raid, lived in an area under its control. IS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi blew himself up Thursday during the nighttime raid on his house…

The global leader of the Islamic State terror group was killed during an overnight raid carried out by US special forces in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province, US President Joe Biden said Thursday. The raid targeted Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, who took over as head of the militant group on October…

Pentagon spokesman John Kirby speaks during a briefing at the Pentagon in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2022. President Joe Biden is sending about 2,000 troops from Fort Bragg, N.C., to Poland and Germany this week and sending part of an infantry Stryker squadron of roughly 1,000 troops based in Germany…