‘For as long as it takes’: Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that the U.S. will help Turkey ‘recover and rebuild,’ a day after he toured an area devastated by the earthquakes that has left tens of thousands dead in southern Turkey and northwest Syria
They include 226,000 women in Turkey and 130,000 in Syria, about 38,800 of whom will deliver in the next month. Many of them were sheltering in camps or exposed to freezing temperatures and struggling to get food or clean water.In Syria, already shattered by more than a decade of civil war, most deaths have been in the northwest, where the United Nations said 4,525 people were killed.
As of Monday morning, 197 trucks loaded with U.N. humanitarian aid had entered northwest Syria through two border crossings, a spokesperson for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said. At the Turkish Cilvegozu border crossing, hundreds of Syrians lined up starting early on Monday to cross.
The 27-year-old car electrician said his family was leaving for a few months after their home in Antakya collapsed, taking up a pledge by authorities allowing them to spend up to six months in Syria without losing the chance to return to Turkey.
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