The European Union (EU) on Monday eased sanctions on Syria’s energy, transport, and banking sectors in a bid to help the country’s reconstruction after the fall of Bashar al-Assad. Syria’s new leaders have been clamouring for the West to ease sanctions imposed on Assad’s regime during the civil war. But Europe and other powers have been reluctant to move before …

Ghana’s Black Stars player Christian Atsu has been rescued alive from the debris of a major earthquake that has killed more than 3,000 people in Turkey where he plays his club football and neighbouring Syria. He is said to have suffered injuries to his right foot & having breathing difficulties. He was reportedly on the ninth floor of the building …

Scores of people were killed and hundreds injured in rebel-held areas of Syria after an earthquake rattled neighbouring Turkey on Monday, rescue workers said, according to AFP. According to Turkey Vice President Fuat Oktay, at least 284 people died in the country from a 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck the country’s South-East on Monday. Oktay said more than 2,300 people were …