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The Muslim holy month of Ramadan begins at sundown.

Turkey’s pro-Kurdish political party and its allies say they won’t field a candidate to run in the country’s May 14 presidential election.

Syrian opposition activists and state media say that Turkey-backed opposition fighters have shot dead at least three Kurds who were celebrating the new year by lighting a fires to mark the occasion leading to tensions in the area

Qatar says it has sent 4,000 cabins built to house fans at last year’s World Cup to earthquake survivors in Turkey and Syria.

Syrian President Bashar Assad has arrived in the United Arab Emirates Sunday, his first visit to the wealthy Gulf country since the devastating earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria last month

Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo was accompanied by numerous current and former government officials at the funeral of soccer star Christian Atsu.

The main U.S.-backed and Kurdish-led force in northeastern Syria says it lost nine fighters, including a commander, when two helicopters crashed this week in neighboring Iraq

A U.N. commission says the international community and the Syrian government did not act quickly last month to help people in need in the rebel-held northwest after a deadly earthquake hit Turkey and Syria

A month after two earthquakes killed more than 55,000 people in Southeastern Turkey and Northwestern Syria, millions of people and pets that were left displaced still need help.

Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides said Friday that the Mediterranean island nation will earmark 2% of its gross domestic product for defense spending.

The president of Cyprus says he will earmark 2% of gross domestic product to defense spending in line with other European Union member states as a means to strengthen the east Mediterranean island nation’s foreign policy bargaining power

The agreement, which has helped ease a global food cost crisis, must be renewed by mid-March, but with the war raging, it's unclear if Russia will sign on again.

Western officials suspect Ukraine partisans may be behind the September explosions that damaged the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines.

Zehra Karaoglu can’t stop replaying the day when she learned of the Feb. 6 earthquakes in Turkey, which claimed the lives of five family members in Kahramanmaras.

A six-party alliance has nominated the leader of Turkey's main opposition party as its common candidate to challenge President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in elections in May, ending months of uncertainty and bickering that had frustrated their supporters.

Jacksonville’s Turkish and Syrian communities came together Saturday for a special festival with all proceeds going to help victims and survivors of the 7.8 magnitude earthquake.

Hungary is further delaying a vote on ratifying Sweden and Finland’s NATO accession bids.

The head of the U.N. children’s agency says that reuniting children with their missing family is a top priority after last month’s massive earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria

Finland's Parliament voted 184 to seven in favor of the Nordic country to join NATO. Finland jointly applied to join NATO with Sweden last year.

Estimates of rubble following the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria from the U.N. Development Program were higher than other recent disasters.

Russia has deployed mercenaries from the Kremlin-linked Wagner Group to break through Bakhmut's defenses, according to Ukrainian officials.

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

NATO General Secretary Jens Stoltenberg indicated Tuesday it is a matter of when, not if, Ukraine will join the alliance and said member nations would continue to support Ukraine in its war against Russia.

Elan Ganeles of Connecticut was visiting Israel for a friend's wedding. The 27-year-old was shot on a road frequented by international tourists that passes through the West Bank toward the Dead Sea.

At least 64 people, including eight children, died when their overcrowded wooden boat slammed into shoals just a few hundred yards off Italy's coast.

The extremist joined Kentucky Republican Thomas Massie as the only two House lawmakers who wouldn't praise humanitarian efforts amid the disaster.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will likely visit Ukraine's capital before the G7 Hiroshima Summit in May, Ukraine's ambassador to Japan Sergiy Korsunsky told CNBC.

The US and its partners should be trying harder to understand and woo the countries of the Global South, but not at any cost.

The Turkish leader told survivors in one area that tremors and bad weather were to blame.

Some of those who lost their homes in the earthquakes that devastated southern Turkey still need tents - and dream of someday having a container to live in.

More than 600 people are being investigated over whether failings in construction made the disaster worse.

Turkey's justice minister says investigations have been launched against more than 600 people in relation to buildings that collapsed in the country's catastrophic earthquake earlier this month.

More than 80 Los Angeles County fire personnel were dispatched on Feb. 6, soon after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake devastated Turkey and northern Syria.

UNESCO is assessing the extent of damage to World Heritage Sites from afar, but officials are prepared to hit the ground, the agency said.

Could California see similar damage to Turkey if a magnitude-7.8 earthquake hit?

Mervan Ergun lost 14 family members, including his mother, two sisters and a brother, in the massive earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria on Feb. 6.

Nearly one million people applied for international protection in the European Union in 2022, the most since the refugee crisis of 2015-2016.

It's a supersoup during this humanitarian crisis. Easy to make, it warms the displaced, fuels rescue crews and comforts residents traumatized by the disaster.

Scary dash cam footage captured the moment another earthquake shook southern Turkey on Monday night, with the tremor injuring hundreds and killing six people.

Weeks after a deadly earthquake hit cities along the Syria-Turkey border, a 6.3 magnitude earthquake rocked the area causing panic in the streets.

The 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck southern Turkey on Monday, near its shared border with northern Syria.

The body of Ghana soccer player Christian Atsu has been repatriated after he was found dead in his collapsed apartment building in the Turkey earthquake.

In a matter of moments, the 7.8 earthquake in southwest Turkey and northern Syria erased more lives than some wars over years of battle.

Searches will only continue in Kahramanmaras and Hatay, the country's disaster agency said.

In the catastrophic earthquake in Turkey and Syria, several survivors stayed alive by chance when their collapsed walls provided protection.

Samaritan's Purse, the international Christian disaster relief group, is on the ground in Turkey after devastating earthquakes, helping to tend to the health and medical needs of residents.

Authorities in Bulgaria have detained seven people in connection with an abandoned truck in which 18 people believed to be migrants were found dead

Ghanaian soccer star Christian Atsu, who played for Everton and Newcastle United, was found dead in the rubble from last week's earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria.

Former Premier League soccer player Christian Atsu was missing after the earthquakes. He had played for Turkey's Hatayspor and on Ghana’s 2014 World Cup team.

Survivors are still being rescued in Turkey more than a week after a quake killed at least 41,000 people. How long can you live trapped under rubble?

FIFA plans to provide humanitarian aid of $1 million to the millions of people who were left homeless from the destructive earthquakes in Turkey and Syria.

One harrowing video shows a dust-covered man being pulled from debris in Turkey asking to borrow a phone to check on his family.

Finland is concerned its application to join NATO in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine will be delayed after a devastating earthquake in Turkey.

A United Nations official says the death toll from the devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake is likely to rise as teams scramble to remove rubble in hard-hit areas.

Dr. Lucy Jones, who's been dubbed the "Earthquake Lady," says building codes in the state leave lots to be desired.

A devastating earthquake that toppled buildings across parts of Turkey and neighboring Syria has revived a longstanding debate locally and in neighboring Cyprus about a large nuclear power station being built on Turkey’s southern Mediterranean coastline.

Turkey is facing a shortage of clean water after two deadly earthquakes damaged the region’s sanitation infrastructure. The water shortage also increases the risk of disease outbreaks.

Death and destruction surround Erzin, but the city in Turkey’s Hatay province suffered no deaths and saw no buildings collapse in last week’s earthquake, residents and officials say, as the fallout focuses on construction codes.

In L.A. as in Turkey, builders are supposed to meet a "life safety" standard — structures that won't collapse in a big earthquake. That doesn't make those buildings resilient.

With so many killed suddenly in the quake, Turkey faces the challenge of burying tens of thousands of people. Multiple funerals are happening at once and the process of burying the dead is constant.

U.S. forces had shot down an Iranian-made drone flying over a base housing American troops in northeastern Syria

The regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is citing the earthquake as reason for the West to drop its sanctions on Damascus.

The United Nations chief has launched a $397 million appeal to help nearly 5 million survivors of last week’s devastating earthquake in rebel-held northwest Syria who have received very little assistance.

A Syrian hospital official says gunmen stormed the clinic that is caring for a baby girl who was born under her earthquake-shattered home.

The United Nations says Syria’s president has agreed to open two new crossing points from Turkey to the country’s rebel-held northwest to deliver desperately needed aid and equipment for millions of earthquake victims.

The baby girl born under the rubble of her family's home in northern Syria in the aftermath of last week’s devastating earthquake is in good health and being breast-fed by the wife of the director of the hospital where she is being cared for, her doctor says.

A week later, the scenes haven’t gotten any less heartbreaking.

What’s left behind after a natural disaster so powerful that it rends the foundations of a society.

As hours have turned to days after Turkey's deadly earthquake, rescues are becoming rarer.

Hundreds of Afghans have rushed to the Kabul airport chasing a false rumor that an airlift operation was flying people to Turkey to help with the deadly earthquake rescue.

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, surpassing 11,000.

The death toll along the Turkish-Syrian border continues to climb as tens of thousands of rescuers scramble to save those in the rubble.

A devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria has raised questions about how long people can survive in the rubble.

Zeliha Hisir tried to speak, but could barely move after her hourslong rescue Tuesday near the epicenter of Turkey’s earthquake.

Rescuers in Turkey and war-ravaged Syria searched through the frigid night into Tuesday, hoping to pull more survivors from the rubble after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake killed more than 4,000 people and toppled thousands of buildings across a wide region.

Many governments have rushed to dispatch aid, personnel and equipment to help the rescue efforts in quake-stricken areas of Turkey and Syria.

A major 7.8 magnitude earthquake centered in Turkey has caused widespread damage across the region.

The Biden administration says it's time for Turkey to ratify Finland and Sweden's applications to join NATO.

An ultranationalist Israeli Cabinet minister has visited a flashpoint Jerusalem holy site for the first time since taking office in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new far-right government last week.

Annual inflation in Turkey has eased slightly in November for the first time in more than a year, but remains close to 24-year highs.

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CIA Director Bill Burns has met with his Russian intelligence counterpart to warn of consequences if Russia were to deploy a nuclear weapon in Ukraine.

Russia has suspended its part of the deal allowing Ukraine to ship grain from its Black Sea ports safely amid a monthslong war, saying it was not going to allow ships to travel.

Serbia is seeing a sudden tourism boom from countries whose citizens never had its sightseeing and shopping opportunities on their radar.

Greece has launched operations at a new international pilot training center created in partnership with Israel, as it tries to build on a relative air power advantage over regional rival Turkey.

Turkey’s main opposition party is seeking the suspension of the enforcement of a newly-approved media law that mandates prison terms for disinformation.

European Union lawmakers have refused to endorse the way the EU’s border and coast guard agency used its 2020 budget.

One Bradford County teen is now a world champion in powerlifting.

Turkish officials say an explosion inside a coal mine in northern Turkey has killed at least 22 people and dozens remain trapped underground.

Greece’s defense minister says his country has the right to take “all defensive measures” to protect its easternmost islands amid threats by neighboring Turkey that dispute Greek sovereignty rights and raise the specter of war.

Greece's migration minister says refugees recognized by individual EU nations should be allowed to live anywhere in the bloc.

Ukraine has completed a high-profile prisoner swap that culminated months of efforts to free many of the Ukrainian fighters who defended a steel plant in the port of Mariupol during a months-long Russian siege.

A flare-up in fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan has killed 155 troops on both sides since early Tuesday.

Greece’s prime minister says he cannot imagine that tensions with neighboring NATO ally Turkey could ever escalate into armed conflict.

Ukraine’s president says tons of grain from his country will arrive in the coming weeks in Somalia, where famine approaches and the global crises of food security and climate change put millions at risk.

Barcelona faces another tough Champions League group after being drawn with Bayern Munich and Inter Milan as it tries to avoid a second straight group-stage exit since losing Lionel Messi.

Officials in southern Turkey say at least 15 people were killed when a passenger bus collided with emergency teams handling an earlier road accident.