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Images show people standing amidst the rubble of a house that was destroyed by a Russian air strike that killed seven people, four of them children, in the Jisr al-Shughur countryside of northern Syria. Russia, which did not comment immediately on the raid, is a main backer of President Bashar al-Assad's regime. With Russian and Iranian support, Damascus clawed back much of the ground lost in the early stages of Syria's conflict, which erupted in 2011 when the government brutally repressed pro-democracy protests. The last pocket of armed opposition to the regime includes large swathes of Idlib province and parts of the neighbouring Aleppo, Hama and Latakia provinces. IMAGES
Aerial shots show the damage done to a road near Pazarcik, Turkey, by the deadly earthquake which struck Turkey and neighbouring Syria on February 6 2023. The fault line between two tectonic plates – the Arabian and the Eurasian – lays beneath Turkey’s southeastern provinces and passes through this road. IMAGES
Aerial images of widespread destruction in the city of Kahramanmaras, one of the hardest-hit spots in Turkey's devestated southeast. Shows rescue teams working to clear the rubble. IMAGES
Aerial shots of the southern Turkish city of Kahramanmaras, in the aftermath of the 7.8 magnitude earthquake, showing the scale of destruction. Some of the heaviest devastation occurred near the quake's epicentre between Kahramanmaras and Gaziantep, where entire city blocks lay in ruins. IMAGES
Smoke rises from fires in Dartford, south of the UK's River Thames, and in Wennington, close by on the north side. Multiple fires have been sparked across the UK after temperatures rose above 40C for the first time ever. IMAGES