The Latest Breaking News from Syria

Former top-flight star Christian Atsu, who now plays in Turkey, is among those still unaccounted for after disaster

Geneva (AFP) - The United Nations rights chief called Friday for an immediate ceasefire in Syria to facilitate the delivery of aid to all victims of the region's devastating earthquake.

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Three people were rescued from the rubble of a building in the Syrian city of Jableh, state media reported, around 110 hours after a deadly earthquake struck the region on Monday.

Jindayris (Syria) (AFP) - Rescuers pulled four people, including a six-year-old, alive from the rubble in Syria Friday, four days after a devastating earthquake killed more than 22,700 people in Syria and neighbouring Turkey, an AFP correspondent and state media reported.

Experts say Syria’s embattled President Bashar Assad may try to use this week’s deadly earthquake as an opportunity to ease his country’s international isolation

More than 22,000 people are said have died following Monday night's earthquake

"My mum has basically lost her entire family including all of her five sisters and four brothers"

Jindayris (Syria) (AFP) - Rescuers pulled three people, including a six-year-old, alive from the rubble in Syria Friday, four days after a devastating earthquake killed more than 22,700 people in Syria and neighbouring Turkey, an AFP correspondent and state media reported.

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…

Death toll passes 22,000; rescuers continue to pull people out of the rubble alive