Aleppo International Airport Resumes Operations after Israeli Bombing

The damage that took Aleppo International Airport out of service after Israel bombed its main runway and its infrastructure is repaired and the airport resumed operations as normal.

In the very early hours of the dawn of Tuesday the 7th of March, Israeli fighter jets fired a barrage of missiles against Aleppo International Airport, Syria's second-main airport, and the main hub for receiving humanitarian and relief aid for the northern Syrian region that was devastated by the earthquake a month earlier.

The missiles destroyed the main runway and some vital infrastructure, taking out the civilian airport of service and impeding humanitarian aid deliveries.

Syria's Ministry of Transport and the country's Civil Aviation department worked hard to repair the damages and restore operations in the airport, tens of thousands of people rely on the incoming humanitarian aid in the cold days of winter after they lost their homes in the earthquake of the 6th of February.

So far, there has been no condemnation by the so-called international community of the Israeli heinous war crime against civilian infrastructure, a vital conduit for delivering humanitarian aid, and an operation airport endangering the inbound and outbound flights through it.

The next time the western officials, Israel's main allies talk about war crimes, slap this one in which they're an accomplice in directly at their ugly hypocrite faces.

More in this report: Aleppo International Airport Restored after the Israeli Bombing.

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Arab Parliamentary Delegation Visit Damascus to Break the Siege

A delegation from the Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union visited Damascus and met with President Bashar Assad in a challenge to the US / European siege on Syria and to show solidarity with the main Arab country in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake that struck the northern regions of the country earlier this month.

The show of solidarity with the Syrian people by the delegations of the Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union comes as the implementation of their conference's decision to restore the relations between the Arab countries and Syria after over a decade of estrangements upon the request of the United States of America.

The USA, however, managed to order the delegations of the Kuwaiti and Moroccan 'democracies' to boycott the visit despite the fact that Kuwait, unlike much of the Arab world did not sever its diplomatic ties with Syria but did contribute financially and with terrorists to the cause of destroying the last secular country in the region.

Morocco is a lost cause, it's an absolute dictatorship monarchy in which the people literally prostate to their king in a humiliating way to humankind and against the teachings of Islam.

The visit of the parliamentarians comes, naturally with the approval of their respective rulers, a sign that the Arabs have decided that serving the USA has limits, especially seeing the signs of the powers of the empire of evil fading across the globe.

Using the gesture of solidarity with an earthquake-struck people, the parliamentarians paved the path for further restoration of diplomatic relations between Syria and the formerly US-tight-controlled Arab countries, if they can manage to follow up on their steps.

Worth noting that despite many of the Arab countries severing their diplomatic ties with Syria and contributing 'generously' to the terrorist war against the Syrian people, Syria has maintained an open door for them to repent when they're ready and has not responded in kind to their 'generosity'.

More in this report: President Assad Receives Arab Parliamentary Union Delegation.

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NATO Terrorists are Using Earthquake Relief Aid for Cheap Propaganda

Al Qaeda controls large parts of the Syrian Idlib and Aleppo provinces and considerable parts of Deir Ezzor and Raqqa provinces, the first two provinces were highly affected by the devastating earthquake on the 6th of February and the occupiers with their NATO backers proved further their indifference to the suffering of the people under their control, yet once again.

In a video aired by one of the main TV news channels used by Al Qaeda to promote their cause, two children in miserable condition appeared on the camera thanking the occupiers for the aid they received, the TV crew forgot the camera rolling and the mic on one of the children and a very interesting conversation between the two boys was heard loud and clear, in just a couple of words, the whole narrative of the terrorists and their sponsors is exposed:

"They give us little medicine and want us to (thank them with) 2000 words," and "I'm feeling giddy.." just imagine it's your son left in such a condition or your little brother; if you're incapable of such a feeling towards these children, do not categorize yourself as a human being.

The terrorists control the trade between the areas they occupy and NATO member state Turkey, they also control the incoming humanitarian aid from long before this disaster, NATO permanent members at the United Nations Security Council keep pushing their limits to keep the lifeline supply routes coming to these terrorists from their NATO partner Turkey secured officially and under the protection of the United Nations.

If you don't want to believe us that Al Qaeda controls the aforementioned areas in northern Syria, take the words of US officials, the former US so-called special envoy to Syria called Idlib province the last stronghold of Al Qaeda in Syria, look it up.

With the help of NATO member state Turkey and the Turkish army which keeps a large presence in northern Syria illegally, Al Qaeda could literally control the lives of over 2 million people, use them as human shields and even spare parts, especially the children who are the most vulnerable and now their suffering increased with the latest earthquake.

More in this report: Al Qaeda Propagandists abuse Earthquake-struck Aleppo Children.

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Egypt Ships more Earthquake Relief Ship to Syria

Egypt has decided to continue its support for the Syrians after the devastating earthquake earlier this month left tens of thousands of people killed across the Syrian - Turkish borders, and hundreds of thousands homeless.

A second ship carrying humanitarian aid sailed to the Syrian port of Latakia from the Egyptian El-Arish port, this follows the previous Egyptian ship that delivered a total of 500 tonnes of humanitarian aid to Syria a couple of days ago.

Sending humanitarian aid to countries struck by natural disasters is the norm in the international arena except when it comes to Syria which is deprived of any businesses or even humanitarian interactions with other countries due to those countries' fear of the US and European Union sanctions created to prevent such interactions with Syria.

Egypt, however, had to wait over two weeks after the earthquake to deliver its first ship to Syria awaiting the approval of the USA to exempt this particular cargo from its inhumane embargo on the Syrian people.

The USA is the same country that occupies large parts of Syria which happens to be the parts where the main Syrian oil, gas, and wheat fields are. The USA sponsors dozens of terrorist groups wreaking havoc in Syria killing tens of thousands of innocent people, maiming tens of thousands more, and inflicting enormous suffering on the Syrian people in order to achieve a regime change in the country.

More about all these issues in this report: Egypt Sends a Second Earthquake Relief Aid Ship to Syria.

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Israel Bombs Residential Neighborhoods in Damascus Killing 5 Civilians, Injuring Others

Shortly after midnight, the anti-Jewish Zionist Israel bombed three residential neighborhoods in Damascus with a barrage of missiles killing 5 civilians and injuring 15 others, some of the injuries were categorized as critical.

The Syrian army's air defense managed to shoot down most of the incoming missiles, however, since the Israelis do not pay for those missiles and it's covered for by the US taxpayers, Israel tends to fire a large number of missiles to overwhelm the Syrian air defense batteries and thus, some of the missiles caused carnage.

Among the victims was a medical doctor killed in his house in Kafr Sousseh residential neighborhood, the doctor is not politically affiliated, and is not personnel in any military unit.

The Israeli/ US-sanctioned heinous terrorist bombing comes merely a day after the US-sponsored ISIS (ISIL - Daesh) terrorists murdered 58 farmers collecting truffles in the central Syrian open desert.

Both terrorist attacks, the Israeli bombing, and the ISIS massacre came while the Syrian people are still removing the remains of hundreds of people from under the rubble after the devastating earthquake of the 6th of February.

There won't be any United Nations Security Council urgent meeting to condemn the Israeli aggression; the council is held hostage by Israel's own sponsors, the NATO trio of permanent members with veto power, the USA, France, and the UK.

More about the after-midnight Israeli bombing in this report: After the Earthquake and ISIS Massacring 58 Farmers; Israel Bombs Damascus.

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World Health Org. Director Visiting Earthquake-Struck Syria!

The director of the World Health Organization paid a visit to Syria bringing with him some much-needed medical-related humanitarian aid, after the massive controversy about the pandemic and suspicions about the WHO's agenda, some are worried about this visit.

Tedros A. Ghebreyesus landed at Aleppo International Airport on the 11th of the month, 5 days after the devastating double earthquakes that struck northern Syria and southern Turkey which inflicted tens of thousands of casualties in both affected countries and left enormous destruction in buildings and infrastructure in addition to overwhelming the healthcare facilities, especially in Syria.

12 years of the US-led war of terror against the Syrian people, their state, and their heritage, accompanied by a complete blockade under dubbed sanctions by both the USA and its European Union minions have strongly hit the Syrian healthcare system which was thriving before this war.

The US and EU blockade, though claiming to exempt humanitarian aid and food items, prevented any business transactions between Syrian entities and the rest of the world including with Syria's closest allies like Russia, Iran, China, and others whose banks and financial institutions were interconnected directly and indirectly with the banking system dominated by the US and EU.

The healthcare aid brought into Syria by the director of the World Health Organization is essential in the relief efforts for both the earthquake and the years of war, it's not enough and it's just another proof that US and EU 'sanctions' did block Syria from acquiring these supposed to be exempted items.

However, there are many skeptics worried about the visit of the WHO official due to the controversial practices of the international organization in suspending critiques of its handling of the pandemic, its promoting of certain vaccination programs while blocking other proven cures, not to mention the lockdowns and restriction of movement which added further strangulations of vulnerable economies.

More in this report: Syria Earthquake: WHO’s Tedros Brings Tons of Aid, Visits Aleppo, Meets Dr Assad.

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More than 600 Survivors of the Earthquake are Sheltered in Armenian Church in Aleppo

Dozens of families, mostly women and children, are being hosted by the Church of the Holy Trinity of the Armenian Catholics in Aleppo, they were left homeless after last week's devastating earthquake.

A Syrian Armenian volunteer said that every day they have between 600 and 675 people who they take care of in the church, the volunteer himself and his family are also survivors of the earthquake but they are finding consolation in helping others.

The main hall in the church was turned into a temporary shelter area to accommodate its guests, volunteers, local charities, and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent are helping with food, baby formula, blankets, medicine, and emotional support, many of the survivors lost loved ones in the ordeal.

Last week's double earthquake was the most devastating in the region in decades, thousands of buildings are affected, including those which have already collapsed, and those that are in danger of collapsing, leaving their residents who survived getting buried under the rubble homeless.

Meanwhile, the US and its fake humanitarian European cronies have not provided any help to Syria, on the contrary, countries that are providing help have to send it through neighboring Lebanon out of fear of the US and EU sanctions, though 'temporarily paused for 180 days' as claimed by the US regime of Biden, there's nothing tangible thus far of that pause on this decade-long war crime and systematic genocide dubbed sanctions.

Add to that the continued occupation of Syria's main oil fields and agricultural food basket by the US Army to deprive the Syrians of their own fuel and food!

If you want to help, make sure the help goes to the ones in need and not through some scam campaigns or through western official channels. The Syrian Arab Red Crescent and Churches like the above-mentioned can receive your funds.

More in this report: Armenian Church in Aleppo Hosts 600 Earthquake Survivors.

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Earthquake Toll Continues to Rise: 3749 Killed and Injured in Syria alone

The latest toll of the devastating earthquake that struck northern Syria and southern Turkey last week reached 3749 killed and injured people in Syria alone, the Syrian Ministry of Health reported at the time of this report.

The casualties on the Syrian side include 1408 killed and 2341 injured, the search is still ongoing amid fears of discovering more dead as hope is fading away in finding survivors almost a week after the disaster and due to the extremely cold weather, not to mention the western sanctions impeding the ability of the rescue teams to receive the equipment they badly need.

Hundreds of buildings were destroyed, and thousands of others are endangered in the Syrian provinces of Aleppo, Latakia, and Hama in the double earthquakes that struck Syria and Turkey last Monday, tens of thousands are homeless and are taken to temporary shelters, they badly need medicine, food, and items used for hygiene and daily needs.

Some of the countries rushed from the early hours of the disaster to provide rescue teams and humanitarian aid breaking the US and European Union blockade, countries like Russia, Iran, Iraq, Algeria, Lebanon, and China, others were encouraged later on including countries that don't have enough for themselves like Bangladesh and Tunisia, while others who supported the terrorists in Syria for over 12 years with hundreds of billions of dollars worth weapons either gave microscopic aid or refrained completely from providing any aid like countries in the European Union and the mother of all evil in the world, the USA.

Beware of fraud, many sites, social media pages and accounts, and fake agencies are claiming they are providing support to Syria, please take extra caution if you are willing to help, you can help the official Syrian Arab Red Crescent which works on the ground inside Syria.

More about the latest development in this report: Syria’s Casualties from the Earthquake 3749 Killed and Injured.

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Syria Slams the USA for Blocking the Delivery of Earthquake Aid

As the Syrian people suffer from the major earthquake that struck northern Syria and southern Turkey, thousands of people are still under the rubble in freezing cold weather conditions, the US and European official continue their inhumane criminal blockade over the country and at the same time lie that humanitarian aid is exempted in their illegal sanction, the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs exposed those war criminal liars.

A statement issued by the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs called out the lies of the US officials and their European minions in regard to the earthquake and humanitarian relief aid to Syria, the statement explained how digging machinery to locate people under the rubble is not allowed to be sent to Syria despite western claims otherwise.

Yes, there are clauses exempting humanitarian aid in the US and European Union's illegal sanctions against Syria, and its main Caesar Act regime of sanctions, the measures implemented by the other clauses in these regimes of sanctions make it impossible for 3rd countries who still have ties with the west to transact with Syria, including sending humanitarian aid.

The sanctions block any transactions between banks in any country and Syrian banks, the same with other financial businesses, airplanes are not allowed to fuel if their destination is Syria, and sanctions are instantly imposed on airlines that do trips to Syria.

Commerical airplanes avoiding Syrian airspace to avoid western sanctions

Medicine is exempted from the US and EU blockade and sanctions on Syria but the means to deliver it are not, food is exempted from the US and EU blockade and sanctions on Syria, but there's no way to deliver those to Syria without transacting with western-controlled banks, insurance companies that insure airplanes and ships, exporters are not allowed to export to Syria out of the fear of ending up in prison in the Western 'free world' and Josep Borrell's 'garden' which they built by invading other countries and plundering their wealth.

"US officials can lie, but it is the pictures from the affected areas in Aleppo, Latakia, and Hama that reveal the truth, and the Syrians are facing their catastrophe with strength, steadfastness, and success despite all these sanctions."
Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs statement.

More in this report: Syria Condemns US Blockade Preventing the Delivery of the Earthquake Relief Aid.

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Hundreds Killed, Thousands Injured in Major Earthquakes striking Syria and Turkey

The toll continues to rise from the major two earthquakes and their aftershock tremors that struck the border region between Syria and Turkey just before dawn today 06 February 2023, the numbers are in thousands killed, injured, and missing under the rubble.

I received a phone call from a frightened relative as I was trying to sleep late at night, it was "Everybody is on the streets, the buildings are shaking.. it's an earthquake.."

It was before 5 am Damascus local time, my relatives live on a higher floor in a 9-floors building in the suburb of Damascus, then social media started flooding with messages, everyone is checking on everyone else.

Syrians are used to their buildings shaking from Israeli repeated bombing giving a hand to ISIS and Al Qaeda terrorists in their massacres across the country, this is something very different, the entire buildings were swinging, my relative tried to explain how the furniture was moving from one side to the other in the rooms.

Two consecutive major earthquakes at 10 kilometers depth, the first of 7.5 - 7.9 degrees on the Richter scale, depending on the source, and the second recorded 5.5 degrees, at the same depth, the epicenter is in the northeast of Gazientap, a Syrian city in Kilikia under the Turkish rule.

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The tremors shook all of Syria, were felt in the Jordanian capital Amman, the Iraqi capital Baghdad and reports of people feeling it in Cyprus, Greece and southern Italy, they were mostly felt in the Syrian provinces of Aleppo, Idlib, Latakia, and Hama, and many buildings started collapsing burying and trapping hundreds of people under their rubble.

Syria called on a country-wide mobilization of all able individuals and for all public and private entities to help, Syrian President Assad held an urgent meeting with the full cabinet in the early morning hours and the army was dispatched to help in the relief efforts along with the Civil Defense, the Red Crescent, all the cadres of the ministries of Health, Social Affairs, Interior (police and security), the Students Union, and everybody else.

In the past 2.5 years, I've been warning of earthquakes, it was coming as minor quakes, the warnings are based on a study by the former director of Syria's National Geology Org back in November 2000 titled: Syria Enters the Earthquake Era.

More in this report: Natural Disaster in Syria: 237 Killed, 639 Injured in Major Earthquakes.

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Central Syria Struck by another Earthquake

Luckily, so far the earthquakes striking areas around Syria are at a maximum moderate level, below 5 degrees on the Richter scale hence no nationwide alert, still, these series of earthquakes are worrying especially taking into consideration that Syria falls on the Arab Faultline on which some serious previous earthquakes have destroyed cities in neighboring countries in the past few years.

The latest earthquake struck near a town in the northern Hama countryside in central Syria, the earthquake recorded 4.5 degrees on the Richter scale and was 10 kilometers deep.

No casualties or damage were reported, however, this earthquake unlike the previous ones was felt across several Syrian provinces including Aleppo, Latakia, Idlib, and Hama itself.

With the USA and its cronies in the NATO 'defensive' alliance continuing their war of terrorism, attrition, and occupation against the Syrian people, the risk of an earthquake's aftermath is increasingly alarming.

There's a vicious cycle of earthquakes recorded over history, the cycle occurs every 240-300 years, in the year 2000, Syria entered the earthquake era.

More in this report: New Moderate Earthquake Strikes Hama Province, Central Syria.

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Another Earthquake Strikes Idlib, Northwest of Syria

A new earthquake struck the northwestern countryside of Idlib province in the northwest of Syria late evening, Monday 19 December, the Syrian National Earthquake Center reported.

The latest earthquake was of a moderate magnitude, 4.8 degrees on the Richter scale, and struck at a 10 kilometers depth, the Earthquake Information site noted, a site that monitors earthquakes around the world.

There were no immediate reports of any casualties or damage to properties, and so far none were reported, the area struck by the earthquake is occupied by Al Qaeda terrorists under the protection of NATO's second-largest army, the Turkish army.

Since the year 2000, natural Syria, aka the Levant, entered what geologists call the Earthquake Era as the region falls on the so-called Arab Plate Seismic Fault which stretches from the Anadul in Turkey to Africa through West Asia, a series of earthquakes across this line has been recorded throughout the past 2 decades, most of which were minor to medium and some of them were devastating.

More in this report: Moderate Earthquake of 4.8 Degrees Strikes Northwest of Idlib.

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A Minor Earthquake Struck Southern Aleppo Province in Syria

A new minor earthquake struck the southwestern countryside of Aleppo in northern Syria early Sunday, there were no injuries recorded from the tremor that was felt throughout an area of several square kilometers.

Sunday morning around 8:51 local time, the Syrian National Seismic Center recorded a minor earthquake in the eastern outskirts of a small town called Abezmo, some 19 kilometers to the west of the city of Aleppo.

There were two reported recordings, the Syrian center recorded 3 degrees on the Richter Scale while an earthquake online system said it was only 2.8 degrees.

This latest earthquake occurred about 17 kilometers slightly to the northwest of a previous earthquake that struck the area in September last year, it's also part of several earthquakes intensified in numbers that are hitting West Asia.

In a previous report for Syria News, I quoted a study in the year 2000 by the director of the Syrian National Seismic Center at that time, the study was titled 'Syria Enters the Earthquake Era' and it says that such earthquakes happen in a span of 240-300 years and now it's due.

More in this report with an interactive map I made showing some of the last two years' earthquakes in Syria: Minor Earthquake of 2.8 Degrees Strikes Southwest of Aleppo City.

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Syria Entered the Earthquake Era - New Minor Earthquake strikes Northeast

The 'Earthquake era' is a term coined by Dr. Ballani, the former director of the National Seismic Center in Syria in the year 2000 when he was referring to the tectonic changes expected to occur during the foreseen future that time which we are living through now.

A minor earthquake struck about 5 kilometers deep in the ground in the southwestern countryside of the Hasakah province, in Syria's furthest northeast, the quake registered 3.4 degrees on the Richter scale.

This earthquake is one in a series of earthquakes the region witnessed since the beginning of this millennium, as predicted by the former director of the Syrian National Seismic Center, the culprit he referred to is the Arab-African subversive fault that extends from the Iskenderun Strip in the north to the Gulf of Aqaba and the Red Sea and then to the southern outskirts of the African continent with a length ranging between 3-4 thousand kilometers.

Details about this last earthquake and a link to a brief of Dr. Ballani's prediction in this post: Minor Earthquake of 3.4 Degrees Strikes Southeast of Al Hasakah City.

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Minor Earthquake Strikes Syrian - Iraqi Borders this Morning

A minor earthquake struck at the Syrian - Iraqi borders in the southeastern Hasakah countryside this morning, Wednesday 10 February 2021.

An earthquake struck the southeast of Hasakah province, in the northeast of Syria, in the morning of Wednesday, 10 February 2021, it’s 3.8 degrees magnitude on the Richter scale.

The Syrian National Seismic Center said this latest tremor struck at 07:06 am and was 27 kilometers deep at the borders with Iraq.

This is the 6th earthquake to strike Syria in the past couple of months, and the 7th in 5 months. The first earthquake was northeast of Damascus a few minutes after midnight of 27th November, it was of 4.3 degrees magnitude on the Richter scale, and the second earthquake was on the afternoon of 28th of the month, it was of 4.1 degrees on the Richter scale and struck the same site northeast of Damascus.

Syria Enters the Earthquake Era.

Syria Entered the Earthquake Era, and that was already warned of 20 years ago in November 2000 by the Director-General of the Syrian General Organization for Geology and Mineral Resources.

Details in this report: New Earthquake Strikes Southern Hasakah Near the Borders with Iraq.

6th Earthquake in Syria in the Past 4 Months

A new earthquake struck in the Idlib province with a magnitude of 4.3 degrees on the Richter scale this afternoon, December 22, 2020.

The earthquake was about 19 kilometers to the southwest of the city of Idlib, 4.3 is considered among the 'light' magnitude of earthquakes, it was 10 kilometers deep, as per the Syrian National Seismic Center.

No casualties were reported from the tremor.

Syria is on the Arab-African subversive fault that extends from the Iskenderun Strip in the north to the Gulf of Aqaba and the Red Sea and then to the southern outskirts of the African continent with a length ranging between 3-4 thousand kilometers is a seismic hazard of the second degree and the most dangerous site on this fault is the northern part of the Arab plate, meaning the Syrian lands, specifically the northwestern sides of it from the Iskenderun Strip to the Al-Ghab, then to the Bekaa, Jordan, and Palestine to Aqaba and the Red Sea.’ From our previous report on the topic.

More in this report: An Earthquake of 4.3 Degrees on Richter Scale Hit Southwest of Idlib.

Syria Enters the Earthquake Era: 4th Tremor in 3 Months, the 2nd in 36 Hours

The second earthquake to hit the same site northeast of Damascus in the past 36 hours, this one of 4.1 magnitude on Richter scale, the earlier one was of 4.3 magnitude.

The Syrian National Seismic Center recorded an earthquake of 4.1 magnitude on the Richter Scale about 50 kilometers to the northeast of the Syrian capital Damascus at 1:45 pm this afternoon.

Shortly after midnight the day before an earthquake of 4.3 hit the same site, as per the Seismic center.

This comes 3 months after two earthquakes, one struck west of Hama, Central Syria and was of 3.1 degrees on the Richter scale, and another of also 3.1 degrees on the scale to the northwest of Latakia, in the eastern Mediterranean on the Syrian coast.

'Syria has entered the earthquake era', this was a warning of Syria's top geologist back in November 2000, and it's not alone, a 3-4 thousand kilometers long fault is moving.

Details in this report: 4th Minor Earthquake Strikes in Syria in 3 Months, the 2nd in One Day.

Earthquake Struck Northeast of Damascus Shortly after Midnight

 An earthquake struck northeast of Damascus shortly after midnight, the quake measured 4.3 degrees on the Richter scale, no casualties reported thus far.

The center of the earthquake was about 50 kilometers northeast of the Syrian capital Damascus near the Damascus - Tadmor (Palmyra) highway.

Some residents of Damascus city and Damascus countryside governorate felt the tremor, however, they're used to bombing and explosions, especially Israeli bombing which happens around midnight the last of which was just a couple of days ago.

Details in this report: Earthquake Measuring 4.3 degrees Struck Northeast of Damascus.