Syria

In Little Aleppo in Ankara, poverty, police harassment and other intimidations are now routine for the Syrians Turkey is increasingly determined to send home

The Minister argued the case was moot as the woman had been granted refugee status so the State no longer had to provide her with accommodation

February’s earthquakes brought death and suffering to a city previously afflicted by war, now people there are striving to rebuild lives

Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has raised ‘serious concerns’ about the mission due to involvement of Libyan coastguard

Syria Letter: As the fasting month of Ramadan ends, conflict is temporarily forgotten

A journey from Lebanon to Syria tells a tale of two countries united in adversity

Meetings with Saudi and Tunisian ministers could lead to end of suspension from Arab League

Army reinforcements sent into West Bank amid fears security situation spinning out of control

Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov urges flexibility

Assad’s presence at summit will revoke Syria’s suspension after crackdown on 2011 Arab Spring protests

Diplomatic relations between the two countries were severed by Riyadh in 2012

Washington retaliates after US contractor is killed by drone attack on coalition base

One group of asylum seekers claim they were ‘mocked and harassed’ and ‘ordered to take off their clothes’

Some officers believe move will hurt retention and recruitment efforts for the undermanned Defence Forces

Up to 3,000 people who claimed asylum have been sleeping rough due to a lack of beds

Earthquake relief exposes compromises in aid provision benefiting Assad government

Trade, diplomatic relations and geopolitical perspectives on democracy make many players feel closer to Moscow than Kyiv

Latest tremors rattle region still coming to terms with devastation caused by other quake two weeks ago that killed more than 47,000

Rocket attack early on Sunday hit a building near a security complex and Iranian installations

Search and rescue efforts to be largely terminated on Sunday night, says Turkish official

The word earthquake shakes my heart. Images and videos of people standing in front of collapsed buildings calling out to their loved ones before they run out of oxygen and hope

Two women and three children rescued as combined death toll in two countries climbs to more than 41,000

Quake has worsened a dire situation in northwest region after a decade of war and a cholera outbreak

Focus of aid effort shifts to helping people without shelter as earthquake death toll rises to more than 37,000

More than 33,000 people killed as chances of finding more survivors growing more remote

Situation in northwest Syria, ravaged by more than decade of civil war, increasingly desperate, says UN

Engin Calar, who runs a shop in Carrickfergus, says his friends are still trapped under the rubble

German rescue groups suspend operations in Turkey due to security issues and reports of fighting

Erdogan could use state of emergency to strengthen grip of his unpopular regime, while Russia will work with Assad to prolong the suffering of Syria’s victims

Syrian president Bashar al-Assad makes first visit to the quake-ravaged region

UN cultural body says priority on the ground now is to save people and it will take a lot longer to get precise view of situation at heritage sites

Fr Tony O’Riordan, based in Aleppo, calls for donations from Ireland

Those who survived are assisting in efforts to locate others, deputy CEO said

In the News podcast with Bernice Harrison

Hopes of finding survivors fade amid freezing temperatures more than three days since the quake hit

The death toll continues to rise after Monday’s early morning earthquake and series of aftershocks

President Erdogan visits region of southern Turkey devastated by this week’s earthquake

Turkish president Tayyip Erdogan acknowledges ‘shortcomings’ in rescue efforts on visit to hard-hit Hatay province

In Kahramanmaras and Pazarcik, rescuers comb the rubble, often finding only body parts

War-torn country is in far weaker position than Turkey to deal with aftermath of disaster