Paint and tears: Northwest Syria commemorates 2023 earthquakes | Turkey-Syria Earthquake

Paint and tears: Northwest Syria commemorates 2023 earthquakes | Turkey-Syria Earthquake

ByNews Polite

Jindires, northwest Syria – On the night of February 5, people across northwest Syria stayed up all night, till 4:30am, before they could close their eyes and sleep, reassured that the anniversary of last year’s earthquakes had passed without somehow triggering another devastating quake. The caution was not based on…

‘I said I’d bury my son with his graddad’: Tales from Syria’s earthquake | Turkey-Syria Earthquake

‘I said I’d bury my son with his graddad’: Tales from Syria’s earthquake | Turkey-Syria Earthquake

ByNews Polite

Idlib, northwest Syria – At the top of a green hill separating the Syria-Turkey border from the small village of al-Allani in the northern countryside of Idlib, Ibrahim al-Aswad stands contemplating rubble that a year ago was a two-storey home. “We were 15 people and only six of us survived,”…

Syrian earthquake survivors still sleep outside one year on | Earthquakes

Syrian earthquake survivors still sleep outside one year on | Earthquakes

ByNews Polite

NewsFeed Families in Syrian towns devastated by last year’s earthquake are still choosing to sleep in tents outside, one year on. They fear that another quake could strike at any moment and that they could be crushed in their sleep. The Turkey-Syria earthquakes struck the region on February 6, 2023,…