Ahmad Hamed al-Khlouf, an internally displaced person from al-Mayadeen city in the eastern suburbs of Deir Ez-Zour governorate who had been living in al-Hawayej village in the eastern suburbs of Deir Ez-Zour governorate, and who worked as a shepherd, w…

Residents of a luxury housing complex in southern Turkey thought their apartments were “earthquake-proof” until the structure toppled like a domino in last week’s devastating earthquake, leaving hundreds feared dead.Now the wreckage of the Ronesans Rez…

Editor’s note: Here is a look at immigration-related news around the U.S. this week. Questions? Tips? Comments? Email the VOA immigration team: ImmigrationUnit@voanews.com.Ahead of Scheduled Arguments, US Supreme Court Drops Border Policy CaseThe U.S. …

Ghana winger Christian Atsu has been found dead under the building where he lived in southern Turkey after last week’s huge earthquake, his Turkish agent said Saturday.Atsu had been missing since the Feb. 6 earthquake following the collapse of an apart…

More than 46,000 people have been killed in the earthquakes that struck Turkey and Syria and the toll is expected to soar, with some 345,000 apartments in Turkey known to have been destroyed, and many people still missing.As Turkey attempts to manage i…

An infant child born in northern Syria during this month’s devastating earthquake was reunited Saturday with her aunt and uncle, after her parents and siblings died in the disaster.Footage circulating widely on social media after the quake showed a res…

As his bulldozer claws at the rubble of buildings destroyed by this month’s earthquake, operator Akin Bozkurt consoles himself that by finding bodies he gives family members the chance to have a funeral for loved ones and a grave where they can mourn.”…

An Israeli rocket strike early Sunday hit a building in the Kafr Sousa neighborhood in central Damascus, killing five people, witnesses and officials said. The rocket struck near a large, heavily guarded security complex close to Iranian installations….