The Libyan government has sent two airplanes full of relief items to Syria and Turkey to help deal with the impacts of the deadly earthquake. “We sent airplanes carrying relief items as well as more [Read More]
The Greek state and people have been mobilized to provide humanitarian aid to Turkey and Syria following this week’s devastating earthquakes that have resulted in thousands of casualties. On the order of Prime Minister Kyriakos [Read More]
An estimated 5.3 million people in Syria may have been left homeless by the earthquake that struck the country and Turkey earlier this week, a United Nations (UN) official said on Friday. Sivanka Dhanapala, the [Read More]
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday announced that the world body will launch a flash appeal for donor support for those affected by the earthquake in Syria next week. “The earthquake that struck Turkey and [Read More]
“This seconds-long tremor pushed us all out,” 57-year-old Johar Jarouj told Xinhua at a shelter he sought refuge at after the deadly earthquake jolted parts of Syria and Turkey earlier on Monday. Jarouj was awakened [Read More]
The displacement of Syrians has cost Lebanon more than 40 billion U.S. dollars since the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011, Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib said on Monday. The minister made [Read More]
In a sign of detente between Turkey and Syria, defense ministers of the two countries have met for the first time in more than a decade, which, analysts say, signals their possible normalization of ties [Read More]
A total of 16 civilians were killed, and four others wounded on Sunday when their residential building collapsed in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo, state news agency SANA reported. The five-storey building, which the [Read More]
About 37 percent of Lebanese residents and Syrian refugees in Lebanon, or about 1.98 million of them, face “severe food insecurity,” UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon Imran Riza said on Wednesday. He made the remarks [Read More]
With the last remaining tooth and a broken arm, 80-year-old Shamsa Mohammad Bilal is trying her best to preserve the Syrian traditional art of silk knotting and dyeing. Being the last person in Syria practicing [Read More]
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