Fire disaster leaves behind years of recovery challenges amid climate crisis, war remnants, minister says, with over 16,000 hectares burned and around 1,200 families affected

The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) signed a cooperation agreement on Tuesday to provide firefighting equipment and tools to combat wildfires in the town of Kassab in Syria’s Latakia governorate.

Wildfires in northwestern Syria, which have burned vast tracts of forest and farmland and forced evacuations, have been brought under control after 10 days.

LATAKIA, Syria — Some of Syria’s worst wildfires in years have been brought under control as of Sunday, according to the Civil Defense and the Ministry of Emergency and Disaster Management, following days of grueling firefighting in the forested countryside of the coastal Latakia province.

The country is experiencing its worst drought in decades, which has set the conditions for the blazes to scorch an area the size of Washington, D.C.

Syria's civil defense agency on Sunday said wildfires in the country's west, which have burned vast tracts of forest and farmland and forced evacuati

LATAKIA, Syria - For several days, Syria’s coastal province of Latakia has been grappling with relentless wildfires. Although Syrian officials have announced near-total control over most of the affected areas,

"Silence and standing idly by are no longer an option,” Druze leader Sheikh Mowafak Tarif wrote. Israel's Druze spiritual leadership called on its community to prepare to assist their Syrian counterparts “by all means necessary,

Syrian firefighters are combating severe wildfires exacerbated by heavy winds and leftover war ordnance. Despite international aid from nearby countries, blazes remain challenging, particularly in Latakia.

Swathes of forested area and farmland have burnt, some villages evacuated as fires raged, including near the Turkish border.