After quake, Syria’s northern coast ravaged by wildfires
Mashquita, Syria Reuters At 72, Syrian farmer Izzadin Zuhaira has survived war, displacement and a devastating earthquake in February. But the forest fires razing his home province of Latakia last week, turning his beloved orchards to ash, were the worst he had seen. “I’ve never seen any weather like this. The soil and the trees […]
Wildfires bring death and destruction to sun-scorched Mediterranean
Rhodes, Greece/Algiers, AlgeriaReuters A plane fighting wildfires in Greece crashed killing two airmen on Tuesday, as large areas of the Mediterranean sweltered under an intense summer heatwave and Algeria battled to control an inferno in which at least 34 people have died. The plane, which had been dropping water, came down on a hillside close […]
Earthquake leaves Syrians across frontlines with shared catastrophe
Beirut, LebanonReuters On one side of Syria’s civil war, a man in army fatigues carried a lifeless child’s ashen body from the rubble of a shattered building in the government-held city of Hama. Across a frontline on another side of Syria, a rescue worker in the white helmet and black-yellow vest of the Syrian civil […]