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UN says at least 50,000 killed in Turkey and Syria quakes

The devastating earthquakes that struck Turkey and Syria have killed at least 50,000 people with many more injured, tens of thousands still missing and hundreds of thousands homeless, the U.N. humanitarian chief said Tuesday. Martin Griffiths told the U.N. Security Council that three weeks...

Three people wounded in regime bombing on Idlib

At least three civilians were injured in regime army bombing on the opposition-held northeastern Idlib region on Monday. Local sources told Zaman al-Wasl that a woman, her daughter, and a man were wounded on Monday as a result of missile strikes by the regime forces that targeted the...

Islamic State land mines in Salamiyeh kill 10 workers

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Land mines left behind by the Islamic State group in central Syria went off in two different locations on Monday, killing 10 workers as they were collecting truffles in the countryside and wounding 12, state media reported. According to Syria's state news agency...

Egypt's top diplomat in Damascus, meets with Syria's Assad

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Egypt's foreign minister Monday met with Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus and promised to deliver more aid to the quake-hit country. Sameh Shoukry is Egypt's most senior official to visit Syria since 2011, a day after Cairo's parliament speaker, Hanafy...