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Feb 6, 2023 · What is happening in Turkey, Syria? Key quake questions answered. Thousands of people have been killed in both countries as a magnitude 7.8 earthquake and aftershocks cause widespread destruction.
Sep 24, 2021 · A decade of war in Syria has left more 350,200 people dead, High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet told the Human Rights Council on Friday, noting that this total was an “under-count of the actual number of killings”. These are a result of a war that spiralled out of the 2011 uprising against President Bashar al-Assad's rule.
Aug 23, 2021 · ‘Look at what is happening’ Amid the renewed violence in Idlib, humanitarian workers have also paid with their lives. On July 17, White Helmets rescue workers, also known as the Syria Civil ...
Mar 10, 2018 · Syria. Syria, a country of high mountains, desert and fertile plains is the home to diverse ethnic and religious groups which lies west to Iraq. The majority of the population is Arab Sunnis and the rest is composed of Kurds, Armenians, Assyrians, Christians, Druze and Alawite Shia (to which the President of the country, Assad belongs).
The Syria crisis, currently in its 11th year, remains the largest displacement crisis in the world. Children are bearing the brunt of the 11-year-old conflict in the Syrian Arab Republic. Over 13.4 million people (6.1 million children) require assistance and 7 million people are internally displaced (3.1 million children).
Mar 15, 2024 · Compounding Syria’s misery was the devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake on Feb. 6, 2023, that killed more than 59,000 people in Turkey and Syria. Some 6,000 of them were were killed in Syria alone, mainly in the northwest, where most of the 4.5 million people rely on humanitarian aid to survive.
Jan 7, 2024 · The northwestern region of Syria has been subject to a ceasefire agreement brokered in 2020 with the assistance of Russia and Turkey. ... and everything happening today is a foreword to it.” ...
