Syria Battles Major Wildfires as UN Allocates $625,000 for Emergency Response

Syria battles major wildfires as UN allocates $625,000 for emergency response

Syrian firefighting crews extinguished two major forest fires in Hama countryside whilst continuing to battle devastating wildfires in Latakia province for the ninth consecutive day.

Syrian authorities say Latakia wildfires ’nearly contained’

Syrian authorities said on Thursday that they had brought wildfires raging across the country’s coastal province of Latakia under "near-total" control, except in two locations in the Jabal Turkman area. In a statement to the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syria’s Minister of Emergencies and Disaster Management, Raed Al-Saleh, said that firefighting, civil defence, and forestry teams had managed to extinguish most of the fires. He said that ex…

Wildfires Ravage Syria’s Northwest as Turkey and Jordan Join Firefighting Effort - The Media Line

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Syrian Civil Defense reports major progress in containing wildfires in Latakia countryside

EU activates Copernicus system to support firefighting efforts as UN teams assess damage and urgent needs on ground - Anadolu Ajansı

Syria battles wildfires for fifth day as climate change worsens

Wildfires in Syria's Latakia affect 2,000 families

Some 1,900 Syrian families have been directly affected, with thousands more at risk, as wildfires continue to ravage Syria's northwestern province of Latakia for an eighth consecutive day, the United Nations (UN) humanitarian agency said Wednesday, reported Xinhua. According to a report by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the wildfires, active since July 2, have spread across more than 40 ignition points, burnin…