Recently, a 3.9 magnitude earthquake struck west of Latakia, according to the National Seismological Center of Syria. in the morning and was recorded by the stations of the National Seismological Monitoring Network.
As a result, the US Treasury Department announced a “temporary” suspension of sanctions on Syria to allow efforts to deal with the aftermath of last Monday’s earthquake.
The death toll from the quake rose to more than 20,000 on Friday morning as hopes of finding new survivors vanished amid the rubble of collapsed buildings.
