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50,000+ people have been killed in Syria and Turkey by a 7.8-magnitude earthquake, one of the most powerful quakes in the region for more than a century.

Syrian government troops fight with rebel forces in the region devastated by the earthquakes of February 6.

The Foreign Office (FO) on Sunday directed embassies in European countries not to issue visas to Afghan nationals after reports emerged of an alleged visa scandal. Pakistan officials were quoted in local media as saying the action was taken after an alleged scandal emerged of Pakistan visas having been issued to 1,600 Afghan nationals on

KIRIKHAN, Turkey - A woman died in hospital on Saturday (Feb 11) a day after she was pulled out of the rubble of a collapsed building in southern Turkey, where she had been trapped for 104 hours since Monday's devastating earthquake, rescuers said. German rescuers pulled 40-year-old Zeynep Kahraman out of the rubble in the town of Kirikhan in southern...

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As death toll in Syria and Turkey passes 28,000, rescuers say unrest paused search operations

Two German aid organizations suspended rescue operations in quake-hit Turkey on Saturday, citing security problems and reports of clashes between groups of people and gunfire. The German International Search and Rescue (ISAR) and Germany's Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW) said they would resume their work as soon as Turkish civil protection agency AFAD classified

An aerial view shows destroyed buildings as a result of the devastating earthquake that struck the Turkish city of Hatay. Abed Alrahman Alkahlout/Quds Net News via ZUMA Press/dpaThe death toll from earthquakes in Turkey and Syria neared 25,000 on Saturday as fewer victims were being found alive and ...

Rescue teams from both Germany and Austria have been forced to halt search efforts following Monday’s deadly earthquake in Turkey due to security concerns and gunfire, a situation expected to worsen as supplies dwindle.

Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias is in quake-affected region of Antioch (Ἀντιόχεια, Turkish: Hatay) in southeastern Turkey and met with his Turkish counterpart