Barbara Surk

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Activists: Syrian rebels detonate tunnels, kill 13

Activists: Syrian rebels detonate tunnels, kill 13

Barbara Surk · July 29, 2014 5:28 pm

Sunni jihadi group expels rivals from Syrian city

Sunni jihadi group expels rivals from Syrian city

Barbara Surk · July 14, 2014 5:58 pm

Syria rebels storm Sunni village, kill 14

Syria rebels storm Sunni village, kill 14

Barbara Surk · July 9, 2014 6:20 pm

FILE - In this Thirsday, June 19, 2014 file photo, Palestinians watch a World Cup football game on a wide screen on the beach of Gaza City. Politics and conflict are never far from soccer in the Middle East, but this year's World Cup has been entangled with unprecedented sectarian violence and soaring tensions between Arab countries, pushing fans to watch matches in secret or even on a channel owned by region's number one enemy _ Israel.(AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)

World Cup entangled with Mideast conflicts

Barbara Surk · July 9, 2014 9:38 am

Extremist group takes Syrian towns, key oil field

Extremist group takes Syrian towns, key oil field

Barbara Surk · July 3, 2014 1:12 pm

FILE - In this file photo taken Thursday, June 19, 2014, an al-Qaida-inspired militant stands guard at a checkpoint captured from the Iraqi Army outside Beiji refinery, some 250 kilometers (155 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq. The al-Qaida breakaway group that has seized much of northern Syria and huge tracks of neighboring Iraq formally declared the creation of an Islamic state on Sunday, June 29, in the territory under its control. (AP Photo, File)

Jihadi group captures Syrian border town

Barbara Surk · July 1, 2014 3:14 pm

Syria activists: 7,000 killed in rebel infighting

Syria activists: 7,000 killed in rebel infighting

Barbara Surk · June 29, 2014 10:39 am

Fire engines work on extinguishing a fire after a suicide bomber blew himself up in his room at a Beirut hotel, Lebanon, Wednesday, June 25, 2014, as Lebanese security forces raided the premises. The bombing is the latest in a string of attacks and security sweeps in Lebanon over the past week that have sparked fears of renewed violence in a country that has been deeply affected by the civil war in neighboring Syria. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Lebanon: Beirut hotel bomber is Saudi citizen

Barbara Surk · June 26, 2014 12:17 pm

In this photo taken on Tuesday June 10, 2014, Mohammed Meslamani, center, a player of Syrian opposition team, made up of former professional and national youth soccer players who became refugees in Lebanon, fights for the ball against Lebanese players, left and right, during a match against a Lebanese team, at a makeshift pitch in Tripoli, north Lebanon. The squad of refugee players are formally known as the Free Syrian National Team. On rare occasions, when they play against a local club in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, they sport their version of the national uniform: black-and-white jerseys adorned with a Syrian revolutionarily flag with three _ instead of two_ stars, pressing against their hearts. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Ex-Syrian players form opposition team in exile

Barbara Surk · June 20, 2014 8:21 pm

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Antonio Guterres greets a Syrian child during his visit to Khaldeh, south of Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, June 19, 2014. Guterres is visiting Lebanon where he will meet some Syrian refugees and discuss the situation with Lebanese officials. Lebanon, home to 4.5 million people, is struggling to cope with the presence of more than 1 million refugees in desperate need of housing, education and medical care. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Watchdog accuses Syria’s Kurdish party of abuses

Barbara Surk · June 19, 2014 11:17 am

Syrians who live in Lebanon gather in front of the Syrian embassy to vote in the presidential election in Yarze, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, May 28, 2014. Thousands of supporters of Bashar Assad flocked to their embassy in Lebanon on Wednesday as expat voting started ahead of Syria's June 3 presidential election - a vote highly contentious amid the civil war but one that is widely expected to give the Syrian president a third seven-year term in office. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Syrians in Lebanon vote for president for 2nd day

Barbara Surk · May 29, 2014 10:35 am

This photo provided by the anti-government activist group Aleppo Media Center (AMC), which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows buildings which were destroyed from a Syrian government airstrike in Aleppo, Syria, Saturday, May. 17, 2014. The United Nations chief has condemned a cut in water supplies in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo that he said has deprived at least 2.5 million people of access to potable water. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center AMC)

Activists: Death toll in Syria’s war tops 160,000

Barbara Surk · May 19, 2014 8:59 pm