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Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 16, 2023
Three women and two children pulled from rubble in Turkey as aid reaches Syria
The combined death toll in Turkey and Syria has climbed to more than 41,000, and millions are in need of humanitarian aid.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 15, 2023
New aid route to rebel-held Syria opens as quake toll nears 40,000
Rare survivors were pulled from the debris eight days after the 7.8 magnitude quake struck Syria and Turkey.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 14, 2023
Turkey finds more survivors as anger grows a week after killer quake
Communities brace for the inevitable scaling down of search and rescue operations as low temperatures have reduced the already slim chances of survival.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 13, 2023
Turkey-Syria earthquake death toll tops 33,000 as search for survivors continues
Concerns are rising over the potential spread of unrest as desperation sets in.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 12, 2023
Turkey-Syria quake deaths pass 28,000; U.N. expects toll to double
Tens of thousands of rescue workers continue scouring earthquake flattened neighborhoods as death toll in the Turkey-Syria disaster surpasses 28,000.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 11, 2023
Children rescued as Turkey-Syria quake toll nears 24,000
At least 870,000 people urgently needed food in the two countries after the quake, which has made up to 5.3 million people homeless in Syria alone, the U.N. warned.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 10, 2023
Rescues provide glimmer of hope among Turkey quake ruins as death toll tops 20,000
Foreign aid arrives after hundreds of thousands have been left hungry and homeless in the middle of winter.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 9, 2023
Erdogan has undermined Turkey’s earthquake response
President Erdogan's paranoid policies against civil society have weakened the very institutions Turkey needs to deal with the devastating earthquake.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Feb 9, 2023
Earthquake in Syria offers leverage to isolated Bashar Assad
Amid an outpouring of sympathy for the Syrians hit by the earthquake, Damascus is seizing the moment.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 9, 2023
Hope fading in hunt for survivors of Turkey-Syria quake amid freezing cold
Turkish leader Tayyip Erdogan acknowledges problems with his country's earthquake relief effort.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 8, 2023
Children pulled from rubble as Turkey-Syria quake toll tops 11,200
An impromptu army of rescuers have worked in freezing temperatures to find those still entombed among ruins that pockmark several cities either side of the border.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 7, 2023
Rescue work moves slowly as Turkey earthquake death toll passes 5,000
People in both countries were set to spend a second day searching through the ruins of thousands of buildings left damaged or demolished.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 7, 2023
Why was the Turkey-Syria earthquake so deadly?
Timing, location and the weak construction of the collapsed buildings are some of the factors that made the quake particularly deadly, experts said.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 7, 2023
Silent phones, freezing rain and anguish in Turkey quake
The disaster toppled nearly 3,500 buildings across 10 provinces, killing more than 3,000 people and injuring more than 11,000, while leaving an unknown number trapped under debris.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 20, 2022
Ukraine cries foul as Russian-annexed Crimea showers Syria with wheat
The development comes as a sign of tightening economic ties between two allies shunned by the West.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 16, 2022
Syrian ex-prisoners haunted by horrors of 'salt rooms'
The fighting in Syria's brutal war has ebbed over the past three years, but Assad and the prison that has become a monument to his bloody rule are still there.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 5, 2022
Water woes deepen misery for families in Syria shattered by war
Many people are having to choose between dirty water and risking disease or going without and possibly becoming malnourished.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 20, 2022
Islamic State fighter gets life over Syria deaths of Japanese and American hostages
El Shafee Elsheikh was convicted in April for his involvement in the plot that led to the deaths of several U.S. nationals and Japanese hostages Kenji Goto and Haruna Yukawa.
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WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Jul 26, 2022
What became of the Arab Spring?
As the birthplace — and sole success story — of the uprisings against autocratic rule looks set to revert to dictatorship, here's a glance at other countries swept up in the movement.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 6, 2022
Middle East crippled by more sandstorms amid climate change and poor water use
These days the storms are coming earlier and more frequently, rising well above the once-normal once or twice a year, starting as early as March and spreading over a wider area.

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