Clashes raged in the southern Syrian city of Sweida on Wednesday after a ceasefire between government forces and Druze armed groups collapsed and Israel threatened to escalate its involvement in support of the Druze religious minority (PICS/AFP, text: AP)
16 July,2025 03:02 PM IST | Anushree GaikwadExplosives planted in a taxi detonated in a Damascus suburb near a Shiite Muslim shrine Thursday, killing at least five people and wounding dozens a day before the solemn holy day of Ashura, state media reported. All pictures: AFP
28 July,2023 10:25 AM IST | EditorThe catastrophic earthquake that razed thousands of buildings in Turkiye and Syria became one of the deadliest quakes worldwide in more than a decade and the death toll kept rising, crossing16000. A magnitude 7.8 earthquake in Nepal in 2015 killed more than 8,800 people. Rescue crews braved freezing overnight temperatures in quake-hit areas in both countries in the hope of reaching survivors and pulling more bodies from the rubble
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