The Latest Breaking News from White Helmets

Turkey and Syria earthquake latest: death toll rises to more than 23,700 – as it happened

Rescue efforts continue amid growing criticism of UN response in Syria and calls for full humanitarian access

The Guardian - AU · Feb 10, 2023

Syrian White Helmets chief slams U.N. earthquake response

The head of the Syrian "White Helmets" emergency response group accused the United Nations on Friday of failing to deliver appropriate humanitarian aid to rebel-held areas of the country ravaged by a major earthquake and its aftershocks.

Reuters · Feb 10, 2023

Syrian cemetery prepares mass graves for earthquake victims as death toll reaches 19,000

Footage posted by rescue workers show Syrians digging mass burial sites in the north of the country for the victims of powerful earthquakes that struck the region on Monday

Daily Mirror · Feb 9, 2023

Dramatic video captures moment entire family were pulled from rubble after Syria earthquake

Video showed the joy and jubilation of rescuers after an entire family was retrieved from the wreckage near the rebel-held city of Idlib

The Independent UK · Feb 7, 2023

As aid pours into Turkey, Syria, rescuers race to find earthquake survivors

Monday’s magnitude 7.8 quake and a cascade of strong aftershocks cut a swath of destruction that stretched hundreds of miles across southeastern Turkey and neighboring Syria, toppling thousands of buildings.

Chicago Sun-Times · Feb 7, 2023

Aid to quake-hit Syria slowed by sanctions, war's divisions

Aid workers say getting aid into Syria after this week’s devastating earthquake has been hampered by the country’s deep fragmentation from years of war

The Independent UK · Feb 7, 2023

Crews race to find survivors in Turkey and Syria as quake death toll now exceeds 6,000

ISTANBUL — As temperatures dipped below freezing, rescue crews raced Tuesday to free those trapped under the thousands of buildings that collapsed in the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that rocked southern Turkey and northern Syria, even as the death toll rose past 6,000.

Los Angeles Times · Feb 7, 2023

Quake deaths pass 7,200 as Turkey, Syria seek survivors

ISTANBUL — As temperatures dipped below freezing, rescue crews raced Tuesday to free those trapped under the thousands of buildings that collapsed in the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that rocked southern Turkey and northern Syria, even as the death toll rose past 7,200.

Los Angeles Times · Feb 7, 2023

A newborn was found alive in the rubble after the earthquake in Syria

Residents digging through a collapsed building discovered a crying infant whose mother appears to have given birth to her while buried underneath the rubble. The mother and other family members died.

WEKU · Feb 7, 2023

Syria longs for international aid amid earthquake devastation

The flow of critical UN aid to northwest Syria has been halted, as politics hampers assistance to government-held areas.

Al Jazeera · Feb 7, 2023