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Aid group official warns that impasse at the UN on border crossing puts 4.1 million Syrians at risk
1 year, 4 months ago

Aid group official warns that impasse at the UN on border crossing puts 4.1 million Syrians at risk

The Independent  

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Aid group official warns that impasse at the UN on border crossing puts 4.1 million Syrians at risk
1 year, 4 months ago

Aid group official warns that impasse at the UN on border crossing puts 4.1 million Syrians at risk

Associated Press  

BEIRUT — An impasse at the United Nations over a border crossing with Syria’s last rebel-held enclave is putting 4.1 million Syrian there in danger, the president of the International Rescue Committee warned this week. David Miliband’s comments came more than two weeks after the U.N. Security Council failed to renew the mandate for the Bab al-Hawa border crossing between …

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UN inquiry commission: Quake aid was slow to reach Syria
1 year, 9 months ago

UN inquiry commission: Quake aid was slow to reach Syria

Associated Press  

GENEVA — The international community and the Syrian government did not act quickly enough last month to help people in need in the rebel-held northwest after a deadly earthquake hit Turkey and conflict-ravaged Syria, a U.N.-backed commission said Monday. “Since the earthquake, we have seen many acts to help victims by the Syrians themselves,” commission member Paulo Pinheiro said during …

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UN investigators slam sluggish help for Syria quake victims
1 year, 9 months ago

UN investigators slam sluggish help for Syria quake victims

Al Jazeera  

Panel says the UN, Syrian government and other actors are responsible for delays in getting emergency aid to Syrians. The United Nations, the Syrian government and other actors are responsible for delays in getting emergency aid to Syrians after the devastating earthquakes last month, a UN-appointed commission of inquiry says. The actors failed to secure an immediate pause in hostilities, …

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Syrian refugees in Turkey face return to quake-stricken areas
1 year, 10 months ago

Syrian refugees in Turkey face return to quake-stricken areas

Al Jazeera  

Government directives issued after the earthquakes allow refugees in affected provinces to move around, but only for a limited time. “I saw it hanging on the closet door as the walls started to crumble around us.” Temporary policy According to government estimates, more than 1.7 million Syrian refugees lived in the 10 southern Turkish provinces devastated by this month’s earthquakes. …

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Turkey earthquake death toll passes 45,000; many still missing in flattened apartments
1 year, 10 months ago

Turkey earthquake death toll passes 45,000; many still missing in flattened apartments

The Hindu  

More than 45,000 people have been killed in the earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria, and the toll is expected to soar with some 2,64,000 apartments in Turkey destroyed and many still missing in the country's worst modern disaster. Mosques around the world on Friday performed absentee funeral prayers for the dead in Turkey and Syria, many of whom could …

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Key developments in the aftermath of the Turkey, Syria quake
1 year, 10 months ago

Key developments in the aftermath of the Turkey, Syria quake

Associated Press  

KAHRAMANMARAS, Turkey — Rescuers have pulled more survivors from the debris of the Feb. 6 earthquake that devastated parts of Turkey and Syria even as the window for finding people alive shrank. “Let me hear their voices.” UN AID CROSSES INTO SYRIA A total of 178 trucks carrying aid from Turkey into northwest Syria have crossed the border since Feb. …

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Red Cross chief warns of health crisis in quake-hit Syria
1 year, 10 months ago

Red Cross chief warns of health crisis in quake-hit Syria

Associated Press  

BEIRUT — Syria could face dangerous outbreaks of disease in the wake of last week’s devastating earthquake if hundreds of thousands of displaced people do not get permanent housing soon, the Red Cross’ global chief said Thursday, as Syrians struggle to receive humanitarian aid amid the mounting crisis. Jagan Chapagain, who is Secretary-General of the International Federation of Red Cross …

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Syrian refugees return home from Turkey after quake devastation
1 year, 10 months ago

Syrian refugees return home from Turkey after quake devastation

Al Jazeera  

Syrians are hoping conditions in their war-ravaged homeland are better than quake-hit Turkey. Bab al-Hawa, Syria – Hundreds of Syrian refugees in Turkey who survived last week’s earthquakes are returning to their war-torn homeland after once again losing everything. “At Bab al-Hawa, we are facilitating the entry of our Syrian people coming from Turkey … by giving them papers proving …

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Syrian quake victims being sent ‘home’ from Turkey for burial
1 year, 10 months ago

Syrian quake victims being sent ‘home’ from Turkey for burial

Al Jazeera  

More than 1,000 Syrians who died in Turkey have been sent back for burial, but those from al-Assad-controlled areas can’t return. Cilvegözü, Turkey – The most common sight going through southern Turkey’s Cilvegözü crossing to Bab al-Hawa through to Syria’s Idlib is sadly the same pick-up truck transporting the bodies of Syrians killed in the earthquakes in Turkey so they …

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After quake, war-hit Syrians struggle to get aid, rebuild
1 year, 10 months ago

After quake, war-hit Syrians struggle to get aid, rebuild

Associated Press  

ATAREB, Syria — After years of war, residents of areas in northwest Syria struck by a massive earthquake are grappling with their new and worsening reality. Almost one week after the devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck northern Syria and neighboring Turkey, the United Nations has acknowledged an international failure to help Syrian quake victims. “My duty and our obligation is …

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After the earthquakes, war-hit Syrians struggle to get aid
1 year, 10 months ago

After the earthquakes, war-hit Syrians struggle to get aid

Al Jazeera  

After years of war, residents in northwest Syria affected by the massive earthquakes are grappling with their new and worsening reality. One week after the devastating earthquakes struck northern Syria and neighbouring Turkey, the United Nations has acknowledged an international failure to help Syrian quake victims. In Atareb, a town that Syrian rebels still hold after years of fighting government …

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Live Updates I Aid, rescues in quake-hit Turkey, Syria
1 year, 10 months ago

Live Updates I Aid, rescues in quake-hit Turkey, Syria

Associated Press  

Rescuers pulled more survivors from beneath collapsed buildings Thursday, but hopes were fading of finding many more people alive after the catastrophic earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria. Guterres spoke to reporters at U.N. headquarters Thursday, hours after a U.N. aid convoy crossed from Turkey into Syria’s rebel-held northwest for the first time since Monday’s 7.8 magnitude quake. ___ U.N. …

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Live Updates | Turkey, Syria quake is deadliest since 2015
1 year, 10 months ago

Live Updates | Turkey, Syria quake is deadliest since 2015

Associated Press  

The catastrophic earthquake that razed thousands of buildings in Turkey and Syria became one of the deadliest quakes worldwide in more than a decade Wednesday and the death toll kept rising, approaching 12,000. The latest on the earthquake: ___ Turkey’s foreign minister says his country is working to get international aid to earthquake-hit areas inside Syria, but damage was making …

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Syrians denounce failed aid response after devastating quake
1 year, 10 months ago

Syrians denounce failed aid response after devastating quake

Al Jazeera  

Syrian activists decry the lack of international assistance to quake victims in its hard-hit northwest region. Bab al-Hawa, Syria – With hundreds of people trapped, rescuers have lamented the lack of international humanitarian assistance desperately needed after the devastating earthquake that killed thousands in northwest Syria. “I call on the international community, the Arab countries, and the United Nations to …

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Photos: Syrians in quake-hit Gaziantep displaced again
1 year, 10 months ago

Photos: Syrians in quake-hit Gaziantep displaced again

Al Jazeera  

Gaziantep, Turkey – For many Syrians living in Gaziantep in southeastern Turkey, the earthquakes that struck Turkey and Syria on Monday have awakened traumatic memories of the 12-year war in their homeland. “We thought that living on the other side of the border would bring us to safety,” said Ahmad al-Rifai, 21, originally from Aleppo. “But we found ourselves reliving …

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Earthquake aid will reach all its population, says war-torn Syria
1 year, 10 months ago

Earthquake aid will reach all its population, says war-torn Syria

Firstpost  

The 7.8-magnitude quake hit Turkey and Syria on Monday, killing thousands of people United Nations, United States: War-torn Syria said Monday that aid sent after the earthquake will reach all its population, even though Damascus does not control all of its territories. Asked if aid donated to Syria – some areas are held by rebels – would reach all of …

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