Syria

Low water levels force halt to north Syria hydropower

Local authorities in north-east Syria will suspend operations at a hydroelectric dam for a week because of low water levels, two officials said on Wednesday, leaving several million people at risk of power outages, Reuters reports. The Tishreen dam in the northern province of Aleppo will be out of service from Wednesday[…]

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Northwestern Syria suffers economic stagnation after quakes

Jandaris, Syria – The earthquakes that struck northwestern Syria and southern Turkey caused severe damage, not only to residential buildings but to the economic sector as well. With many commercial and industrial facilities reduced to rubble, northwest Syria has witnessed visible stagnation in its commercial sector, along with a steep increase in prices[…]

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Rescuers toil on in rubble of Türkiye and Syria

Exhausted rescuers pulled dwindling numbers of survivors from earthquake rubble in Türkiye and Syria on Saturday five days after one of the region’s worst natural disasters whose death toll neared 26,000 and looked set to rise far higher. In Kahramanmaras, close to the epicentre in south Türkiye, there were fewer[…]

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Turkey earthquake: Aid not reaching northwest Syria as border guards affected

UN aid is not reaching opposition-held territory in northwest Syria due to customs officials at the Turkish border being personally impacted by Monday’s earthquake, officials and humanitarian workers have told MEE. More than 11,000 people have died after a 7.8-magnitude quake struck the southeastern Turkish city of Gaziantep on Monday morning. A second, 7.5-magnitude[…]

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Dozens dead as powerful earthquake shakes Turkey, Syria

Syrian health ministry says more than 200 dead. Some 237 people have been killed and 639 injured in Syria in the powerful earthquake, assistant health minister Ahmed Dhamiriyeh has told state television. The affected swath of Syria is divided between government-held and opposition-held areas. In rebel-held northwest Syria, the opposition’s[…]

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