The Latest Breaking News from Türkiye

A magnitude 5.6 earthquake shook southern Türkiye on Monday — three weeks after a catastrophic temblor devastated the region — causing some already damaged buildings to collapse and killing at least one person, the country's disaster management agency, AFAD, said. Another 69 people were injured as a result of the…

The European Commission announced Sunday the arrival of two planes with emergency aid in the Syrian capital Damascus as part of the humanitarian aid bridge to the regions impacted by the earthquake. “The planes delivered much-needed relief items such as winterized tents, shelter equipment, and heaters,” said the Commission.

Besiktas fans threw thousands of stuffed toys onto the pitch during Sunday's match against Antalyaspor to donate to children impacted by the earthquake in Türkiye and neighboring Syria. The Turkish Super Lig game, which ended 0-0, was paused after 4 minutes and 17 seconds to allow fans to throw the…

Egypt's foreign minister met Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Monday in the first visits to Syria and Türkiye by a top Egyptian diplomat in a decade. Assad has benefited from an outpouring of Arab support since devastating earthquakes hit his country and neighboring Türkiye…

In a display of solidarity, fans of Turkish football club Beşiktaş throw toys onto the pitch at the 4:17 mark of the game — the exact time the first earthquake struck Türkiye and Syria on February 6.

Iraq's Tigris and Euphrates rivers have witnessed a sharp decrease in their levels in the south of the country, officials said Sunday, pledging to take urgent measures to ease water shortages. In Nasiriyah, capital of the southern province of Dhi Qar, an AFP photographer saw the river bed of the…

At least 58 migrants died when their wooden boat smashed into rocky reefs and broke apart off southern Italy before dawn Sunday, the Italian coast guard and UN agencies said. Survivors indicated that dozens more could be missing from the boat that had set out from Türkiye. The Italian Coast…

Türkiye has arrested 184 people suspected of responsibility for the collapse of buildings in this month's earthquakes and investigations are widening, a minister said on Saturday, as anger simmers over what many see as corrupt building practices. Overnight, the death toll from the earthquakes, the most powerful of which struck…

Schools resumed classes in Syria’s opposition-held northwest Saturday after closing for nearly three weeks following an earthquake that devastated the region, local officials said, even as many schoolchildren suffer from shock. Many schools were turned into temporary shelters following the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Türkiye and neighboring parts of…

A magnitude 5.5 earthquake struck Central Türkiye on Saturday, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Center said. The quake was at a depth of 10 km, EMSC said. The combined death toll in Türkiye and Syria from a devastating earthquake earlier this month surpassed 50,000. The Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) announced…

Head of the Syrian Democratic Council (SDC) Ilham Ahmed said cooperating with the Damascus regime “unconditionally” will only grant it some form of legitimacy and will not lead to a political solution to the Syrian conflict. Her remarks reflect the SDC’s opposition to Arab and regional efforts to normalize ties…