Syria

A journalist from Turkey has won the hearts of people after a video of him running to help a little girl during a live broadcast went viral on the internet.

Turkey's Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu has warned the next 48 hours would be "crucial" in the hunt for survivors.

A massive rescue effort in Turkey and Syria battled frigid weather in a race against time Tuesday to find survivors under buildings flattened by an earthquake that killed more than 5,000 people.

Christian Atsu now plays for Turkish side Hatayspor.

The prison also holds fighters from Kurdish-led forces.

The screams of people still trapped in the rubble filled the night early on Tuesday and relatives wept for their loved ones as the death toll in Turkey and in neighbouring northwest Syria rose to more than 3,700.

More than 2,300 people have been killed by the 7.8-magnitude quake near Turkey's Syrian border, with the toll expected to grow.

A US-led coalition fighting jihadists resumed regular patrols in Kurdish-held areas of northeast Syria on Friday after earlier Turkish air strikes, an AFP correspondent and a Kurdish military source said.

A spokesman for IS said Hashimi, an Iraqi, was killed "in combat with enemies of God", without elaborating on the date or circumstances of his death.

US targets 'senior' IS jihadist in Syria's northeast: Centcom

Counter-terrorism officers said the hostages' recollections helped "zero in" on three of the British captors.

The demand for a craft that dates back to ancient Phoenician times has dropped to all but a trickle.

Russian air strike on Syria kills seven: monitor

Iran, Russia, Turkey presidents to talk Syria war in Tehran

Syria's Assad in first official visit to Aleppo since war

US strike kills jihadist leader in Syria

He had researched and planned potential attacks on the Houses of Parliament and other MPs

Russia has seized the port city of Kherson and stepped up its shelling of urban centers across the country.

US forces took incoming fire from unknown local gunmen during the raid

Relatives of jihadists, including children, are kept in Kurdish-controlled camps in Syria's northeast

A new surge in numbers of migrant arrivals has hit the bloc's southern and eastern members this year

No reason was given for the timing of the move, which comes as Lebanon reels from spiralling political and economic crises.

Belarusian foreign ministry spokesman Anataoly Glaz accused Poland of exacerbating the problem.

The trial will last until May 2022, with 145 days for hearings involving about 330 lawyers, 300 victims and former president Francois Hollande

Blinken said the United States will also let in more Afghans who served as interpreters or in other support roles to forces of the US-led coalition

The most dramatic scenes happened six years ago, when many asylum-seekers streamed out of Syria

In the last multi-candidate poll in 2014, Assad won 88 percent of the vote.

Almost 10 years since the Arab Spring reached Syria on March 15, 2011, the judgement will be the first in the world related to the brutal repression of protesters by the regime in Damascus.

The assassination of Fakhrizadeh is the latest in a series of killings of nuclear scientists in Iran.

Last year, Trump's administration made the controversial to decision to recognise Israeli sovereignty over the Golan.