The Latest Breaking News from Türkiye

The team of 72 Australian specialists are coordinating international teams in the southern Hatay Province, where an estimated 103 people have been saved from the rubble.

UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan has ordered the provision of an additional $50 million as relief aid for quake-affected people in Syria, with $20 million of the sum to be allocated to implement humanitarian projects in response to the emergency appeal of the United Nations (UN) regarding…

The World Health Organization said on Wednesday it was particularly concerned over the welfare of people in northwestern Syria, a opposition-held region with little access to aid, since the earthquakes struck last week. "It's clear that the zone of greatest concern at the moment is the area of northwestern Syria,"…

Türkiye turned its focus to reconstruction on Wednesday, encouraging those in quake-hit areas whose buildings have been deemed safe to return home, while its stock index soared as it reopened after five days of earthquake-related closure. In neighboring Syria's opposition-held northwest, which was already suffering from more than a decade…

Two more planes carrying relief to the victims of the devastating earthquake in Syria and Türkiye departed Saudi Arabia on Wednesday. The planes took off from King Khalid International Airport and were headed to Syria’s Aleppo and Türkiye's Gaziantep. The first aircraft is loaded with 90 tons of food baskets,…

Jordan's foreign minister Ayman Safadi arrived in Damascus on Wednesday in the first such visit since the Syrian conflict and will later head to Türkiye to show "solidarity" after the quake, an official source said. The visit will focus on humanitarian needs and how Jordan, a neighbor that hosts tens…

The additional aid money will go towards "protecting those made most vulnerable" in the two earthquake-devastated countries, as well as supporting ongoing search-and-rescue efforts.

The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) announced Tuesday that the eighth relief plane landed at Aleppo International Airport as part of the Saudi air bridge to help the victims of the devastating earthquake that struck Syria and Türkiye, leaving more than 35,000 dead and wounded. Advisor at…

As rescue efforts reach their final hours and extensive debris removal continues, new satellite images reveal the scale of the damage to critical infrastructure across Türkiye and Syria.

Despite reports he had been found alive after the Türkiye earthquake, Ghanaian footballer Christian Atsu remains missing nine days after the tremor, according to his agent.

As the death toll from the deadly series of earthquakes that hit Türkiye and Syria last week passes 41,000, how are these numbers being counted and how are communities dealing with so many bodies?