Rescuers saved a 13-year-old boy from under a collapsed building a week after Turkey’s deadliest modern-day earthquake killed tens of thousands of people as the…
Turkey’s megacity Istanbul should start preparing now for a powerful earthquake that can strike anytime and mobilise all available resources to save lives and lesson…
Antakya, Turkey – “Canlı! Canlı!” has been the most hopeful cry heard in the streets of Antakya since a magnitude 7.8 earthquake sent waves of…
Jadaris, Syria – In Jandaris, in northwest Syria’s Aleppo province, residents scrambled to find and pick up remnants of their lives from between mounds of…
People buried under rubble for up to seven days are still being pulled out alive. Even as United Nations aid chief Martin Griffiths signals that…
On February 6, yet another catastrophe hit northwest Syria. The series of earthquakes with an epicentre in southern Turkey devastated the region, home to four…
Salam al-Mahmoud is a 24-year-old volunteer with the Syria Civil Defence team, also known as the White Helmets. She has been involved in search and…
Day after day, hour after hour, minute after minute, the death toll in tattered and bleeding Turkey and Syria surges. By the time this piece…
In the midst of debris dust and toxic smoke rising from fires lit to stay warm, the smell of dead bodies is growing. Kahramanmaras, Turkey…