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An Israeli airstrike hit the international airport of Aleppo (north), Syria's second city, early Monday morning for the fourth time since the beginning of News

77 dead in migrant shipwreck off Syria after leaving Lebanon

At least 77 migrants drowned when a boat they boarded in Lebanon sank off Syria's coast, Syria's health minister said Friday, in one of the deadliest such shipwrecks in the eastern Mediterranean.

At least 77 migrants drowned when a boat they boarded in Lebanon sank off Syria's coast, Syria's health minister said Friday, in one of the deadliest su

At least 77 migrants lost their lives after a boat they boarded sank off the Syrian coast as they attempted to flee Lebanon's poverty-stricken environment.

At least 77 migrants drowned when a boat they boarded in Lebanon sank off Syria's coast, Syria's health minister said Friday, in one of the deadliest such shipwrecks in the eastern

Dozens remain unaccounted for after vessel carrying over 100 people, mostly Lebanese and Syrian, sank near Tartous

This is the deadliest such shipwreck from Lebanon in recent years.

At least 73 migrants drowned when a boat they boarded in Lebanon sank off Syria's coast, Syria's health minister said Friday, the deadliest such shipwreck from Lebanon in recent years.Lebanon, which since 2019 has been mired in a financial crisis branded by the World Bank as one of the worst in modern times, has become a launchpad for illegal migration, with its own citizens joining Syrian and Palestinian refugees clamouring to leave the country.

"We are dealing with one of our largest ever rescue operations," an official at Syria's transport ministry said.