As of Tuesday, the total reported dead in the two countries stood at over 41,000, with tens of thousands more people injured. “Today, after the earthquakes that hit the northwestern regions of Syria, the situation has escalated. Just two days before the earthquakes, clashes between Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham, a network of hardline Islamist groups, and regime forces in Latakia left dozens dead. As a result, it was not until Thursday, Feb. 9, that six trucks from the UN Office for the Coordination of Human Affairs, carrying shelter and non-food items, arrived in northwestern Syria. Largely isolated from the wider country, northwestern Syria was forced to fend almost entirely for itself in the days immediately following the disaster.

Source: Libya Today February 16, 2023 01:56 UTC