BAB AL-HAWA BORDER CROSSING, Syria - An aid convoy reached rebel-held northwestern Syria Thursday, the first since a devastating earthquake that has killed thousands, an official at the Bab al-Hawa border crossing told AFP.
The 7.8-magnitude quake early Monday has killed more than 17,000 people in
The death toll from Monday's catastrophic earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria surpassed 15,000 on Thursday morning, authorities said. AFAD, Türkiye’s disaster management agency, put the number of fatalities in the county at 12,391 in an update on Thursday, while the Syrian Health Ministry recorded 1,262 deaths, as of Wednesday.