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People and rescue teams try to reach trapped residents inside collapsed buildings in Adana, Turkey, Feb. 6, 2023.

Powerful quake rocks Turkey and Syria, kills more than 2,300

Natural disasters

Rescue workers and residents in multiple cities are searching for survivors, after a powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake rocked wide swaths of Turkey and Syria early on Monday.

People put flowers over a memorial placed on the spot of Sunday's explosion on Istanbul's popular pedestrian Istiklal Avenue in Istanbul, Nov. 14, 2022.

Turkey detains Syrian suspect in deadly Istanbul bombing

Violence
overhead view of destroyed city

Jackie Chan is producing a movie in Syria. Some Syrians are outraged.

Conflict & Justice
Refugees wait to travel back to Ukraine from the train station in Przemysl, southeastern Poland

Ukraine: The humanitarian catastrophe

Coronavirus Conversations
European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson arrives for a meeting of EU justice and interior ministers at the European Council building in Brussels, Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021.

EU’s top migration official calls for global response to help Afghans in order to avoid migration crisis in Europe

Afghanistan
People wearing masks stand in front of white bags of food aid

Russia’s vote at UN could cut off humanitarian aid to northwest Syria

Conflict & Justice

Millions of people could be cut off from assistance if the Bab al-Hawa crossing, along the border between Turkey and Syria, closes. Basma Alloush, policy and advocacy adviser for the Norwegian Refugee Council, spoke with The World’s Marco Werman about what’s at stake.

In this image taken from video, dozens of medical workers protest a decision to grant Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government a seat on the executive board of the World Health Organization, May 31, 2021, in Idlib, Syria.

Syrians outraged by WHO board election: ‘It’s like appointing a mass murderer to be the police chief’

The news that Syria has been appointed to the World Health Organization’s executive board has outraged many Syrians who feel the Assad regime should be held accountable for war crimes.

Thirty-five-year-old Dalya Khaled al-Masoud said she had two perfectly healthy pregnancies prior to her daughter Fatema. She believes the chemical attack in Khan Sheikhoun led to her daughter's deformities.

She survived a chemical attack in Syria. But could her baby have been impacted?

Syrians on the border

Dalya Khaled al-Masoud was in the early months of her pregnancy in April 2017, when Syrian regime forces carried out a chemical attack near her town of Khan Sheikhoun. She experienced difficulty breathing, foaming at the mouth and even fainted. Later, her baby was born without limbs. She believes the chemical attack was the culprit.

Temporary cast of Jad's legs at the workshop at the NSPPL center in Reyhanli, Turkey. Specialists will use these to make the permanent braces that will help Jad walk.

A decade of war has devastated Syria’s health care system

Syrians on the border

Sometimes, the most basic services are not available to patients. And it can lead to dire consequences.

A woman votes for President Bashar al-Assad

Displaced Syrians in Turkey say Syria’s elections are a sham

Syrians on the border

​​​​​​​Syria is set to hold presidential elections this month. Syrians in Turkey view the exercise with cynicism and bitterness.