The Latest Breaking News from Türkiye

Living for years in a tent camp for displaced people in Syria’s opposition-held northwest, Ali Abu Yassin used to envy friends and relatives who had brick walls around them and solid ceilings over their heads. The situation was turned on its head after Monday’s devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit Türkiye…

Türkiye's lax enforcement of modern construction codes — which experts in geology and engineering have long warned about — is coming under renewed scrutiny in the aftermath of the devastating earthquakes.

Teams from Syria’s Civil Defense (White Helmets), as well as civilian volunteers, have continued their search and rescue efforts of survivors of the devastating earthquake that struck the country and neighboring Türkiye on Monday. They are carrying out their efforts in the opposition-held regions in Syria's northwest. They are in…

Rescuers pulled a two-month-old baby and an elderly woman from the rubble on Saturday, five days after an earthquake devastated Türkiye and Syria, leaving more than 25,000 dead. Tens of thousands of local and international rescue workers are still scouring through flattened neighborhoods despite freezing weather that has compounded the…

New planes loaded with tons of relief aid and transporting emergency crews arrived in Türkiye to help in the rescue efforts in wake of the devastating earthquake that struck on Monday. The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (Ksrelief) announced the arrival of three plans in Türkiye. A plane…

Suat Bayram, 69, was reportedly visiting Türkiye with family when the building he was in collapsed. DFAT says it is assisting relatives of Australians feared dead.

In the aftermath of the earthquake that has devastated swathes of Türkiye and Syria, emergency responders and scientists are turning to data captured by satellites to help understand the vast scale of the disaster.

Mountains of rubble and twisted metal. Death on an unimaginable scale. Grief. Rage. Relief at having survived. What's left behind after a natural disaster so powerful that it rends the foundations of a society? What lingers over a decade later, even as the rest of the world moves on? Similarities…

Crouched under concrete slabs and whispering "inshallah" (God willing), rescuers carefully reached into the rubble, then passed down the line their prize - a 10-day-old newborn who survived four days with his mother in the collapsed building. His eyes wide open, Turkish baby Yagiz Ulas was wrapped in a shiny…