The same town saw another dramatic rescue Monday evening, when a toddler was pulled alive from the wreckage of a collapsed building.
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How to help people affected by the earthquake in Turkey and Syria
Major international groups are among the first to coordinate on-the-ground response teams in the affected regions.
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Teams race to find survivors as quake aid pours into Turkey, Syria
The death toll soared above 7,200 and was still expected to rise.
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Rockets hit U.S. base in eastern Syria; no casualties reported
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor, said the rockets were fired by Arab tribesmen in the region who are armed by Iran.
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Turkey strikes in Syria, Iraq a week after Istanbul bombing
The airstrikes came after a bomb rocked a bustling avenue in the heart of Istanbul on Nov. 13, killing six people and wounding over 80 others.
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Syrian official says so far, 77 dead in migrant boat sinking
The incident was deadliest so far as a rising number of Lebanese, Syrians, and Palestinians have been trying to flee crisis-hit Lebanon by sea.
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Islamic State leader blows up himself, family as U.S. attacks hideout in Syria
About 50 U.S. special operations forces landed in helicopters and attacked a house in a rebel-held corner of Syria, clashing for 2 hours with gunmen.
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U.S. troops in Syria are attacked after airstrikes on militias
There is no indication that Sunday’s attacks by the U.S. were meant as the start of a wider, sustained U.S. air campaign in the border region.
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U.S. airstrikes in Syria a warning to Iran, Biden says
Administration officials defend the raid as legal and appropriate even as several Democrats in Congress criticize the military action.
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Pentagon spy agency finds Trump’s Syria withdrawal aided ISIS
The assessment, part of a quarterly report disclosed Tuesday, concluded that ISIS “exploited the Turkish incursion and subsequent drawdown of U.S. troops to reconstitute capabilities and resources within Syria.”