The Latest Breaking News from Syria

From Vogue photoshoots to lunch with Brangelina, Syria's brutal ruling couple once tried to buy influence. After a decade as international pariahs, will they use a natural disaster to stage their return to the world stage?

Mustafa Gunay lost his sister and her family when the earthquakes hit their home city of Antakya in Turkey

Türkiye has arrested 184 people suspected of responsibility for the collapse of buildings in this month's earthquakes and investigations are widening, a minister said on Saturday, as anger simmers over what many see as corrupt building practices. Overnight, the death toll from the earthquakes, the most powerful of which struck…

The Turkish death toll from the tremors now stands at more than 43,000, while the number of fatalities in neighbouring Syria, a nation already shattered by war, is close to 6,000

Schools resumed classes in Syria’s opposition-held northwest Saturday after closing for nearly three weeks following an earthquake that devastated the region, local officials said, even as many schoolchildren suffer from shock. Many schools were turned into temporary shelters following the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Türkiye and neighboring parts of…

Local officials say that schools are reopening in Syria’s rebel-held northwest Saturday after closing for nearly three weeks following an earthquake that devastated the region

Tens of thousands of people across Turkey and Syria were killed or made homeless after a series of earth-shattering quakes caused the collapse of countless buildings and ripped the ground apart earlier this month

A magnitude 5.5 earthquake struck Central Türkiye on Saturday, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Center said. The quake was at a depth of 10 km, EMSC said. The combined death toll in Türkiye and Syria from a devastating earthquake earlier this month surpassed 50,000. The Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) announced…

Iranian state television announced on Friday that Iran is likely to sell surface-to-air missiles to Syria, to help it boost air defenses in the face of repeated Israeli airstrikes. “Syria needs to rebuild its air defense network and requires precision bombs for its fighter planes,” Reuters quoted the Iranian state…

Head of the Syrian Democratic Council (SDC) Ilham Ahmed said cooperating with the Damascus regime “unconditionally” will only grant it some form of legitimacy and will not lead to a political solution to the Syrian conflict. Her remarks reflect the SDC’s opposition to Arab and regional efforts to normalize ties…

Nearly 240,000 rescuers continue to work in quake-hit provinces in Turkey, though no survivors have been found recently.