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A massive earthquake and multiple aftershocks struck Turkey and Syria, leaving over 3,800 people dead on Monday. Turkish Ambassador to the U.S. Murat Mercan joined CBS News' John Dickerson on "Prime Time" to discuss the damage and the ongoing rescue efforts. Read More

Calgarians at home and abroad are reeling in the wake of a massive earthquake that struck a war-torn region near the border of Turkiye and Syria. In the early morning hours on Monday, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck a region near the border between the two nations, killing more than 2,500…

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NEW YORK (AP) — He had been brought from the battlefields of Syria to a New York lockup, a U.S. citizen charged with serving as a sniper and weapons trainer for the Islamic State group. And even in jail, Ruslan Maratovich Asainov kept a makeshift version of the militants' black…

In an important ruling with global human rights implications, Federal Court Judge Henry Brown has informed the Canadian government that it must end the years-long arbitrary detention without charge endured by dozens of Canadian men, women and children in northeast Syrian jails and prison camps. The January 20 judicial repatriation…

Last year, Syrians faced the worst economic crisis since the conflict began in 2011 and many families are having to scavenge for rubbish so they can either eat it or sell it A child carrying a bag of bread walks as a US convoy patrols the area (Image: AFP via…

A pro-Iran commander was among three killed in drone strikes near Al Bukamal in Syria on Monday, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, only hours after strikes that killed seven others the previous evening. "A commander in an Iran-backed group and two of his companions, all of them…

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(Reuters) – Two rockets targeted a U.S. patrol base in northeastern Syria but did not result in any injuries or damage to the base, the U.S. military said on Friday. U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces visited the origin site of the rockets and found a third unfired rocket, the U.S. military…

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