The earthquake has already resulted in thousands of casualties in Turkey and Syria. Credit: Ilyas Akengin / AFP via Getty Images UPDATE: Feb. 22, 2023, 1:20 p.m. EST This story was updated to ...

Powerful earthquakes hit Turkey and Syria, causing thousands of deaths in Turkey’s worst seismic event in decades. WSJ explains why the meeting of three tectonic plates under the region mean ...

A woman is to travel to the Turkish border with Syria to help prepare 2,000 meals a day during the last six days of Ramadan. Sara Rashid usually runs a business making savoury snacks from her kitchen ...

Just four miles away from the first earthquake's epicentre, satellite imagery shows the impact on the once-busy downtown city of Nurdagi in southern Turkey. Kahramanmaras was once known for its ...

As the official death toll from Monday’s earthquake in Turkey and Syria surpasses 22,000, fact-checking organizations that operate out of the region described the chaotic state of information ...

Turkey and Syria struggle to respond to devastating earthquakes; Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, puts forward possible pardons for thousands of protesters; and Brazilian President ...

The US Geological Survey (USGS) said that the epicentre of the 7.7-magnitude earthquake was 16 kilometres north-northwest of ...

Syria is the scene of an escalating rivalry between two U.S. allies — Turkey and Israel. Analysts say Israel is becoming alarmed at Turkey's growing military and diplomatic influence in Syria ...

shakes hands with Syria's interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa during a joint press conference following their meeting at the presidential palace in Ankara, Turkey, Feb. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco ...

Turkey on Friday warned against “provocations” in Syria’s Latakia province, where recent clashes killed dozens in some of the worst violence since Bashar al-Assad’s fall, saying they ...

The SDF, which controls much of Syria's northeast and which Ankara views as a terrorist organisation because of links to Kurdish militants in Turkey, signed an agreement to join Syria's new state ...