Barbara Surk

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Syrian soccer goalie-turned-rebel becomes icon

Barbara Surk · May 19, 2014 9:55 am

This Sunday, May 4, 2014 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 Syrian men carrying the body of a man who was killed by a government forces airstrike, in Aleppo, Syria. Syrian state media say on Monday, May 5, 2014 rockets have slammed into a government-held district in the northern city of Aleppo, killing many people. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center AMC)

Syria clashes kill 21 rebels in Aleppo province

Barbara Surk · May 5, 2014 4:27 pm

People walk through the Damascus General Hospital past a portrait of the President Bashar Assad in Damascus, Syria, Sunday, May 4, 2014. An official with Syria's Supreme constitutional Court said Assad and two others will be candidates in coming June presidential elections. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

Assad to face 2 others in Syrian presidential poll

Barbara Surk · May 4, 2014 6:47 pm

In this picture taken on Tuesday, April 22, 2014, Lebanese army soldiers patrol a road near Ras al-Haref mountain at the unmarked Lebanese-Syrian border, eastern Lebanon. More recently, the unmarked border between the two Arab neighbors, Syria and Lebanon, has become a source of friction in the region. Lebanese militants, fighting on the opposing sides in Syria's civil war have been moving troops and weapons freely over the 365-kilometer (226-mile) invisible frontier. Syrians fleeing their country's bloodshed keep pouring into Lebanon, with most Syrian crossing into Lebanon without being checked by officials at half a dozen border posts. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Mideast conflicts meet in tiny patch of Lebanon

Barbara Surk · April 26, 2014 6:01 am

Activists say Syrian airstrikes in north kill 30

Barbara Surk · April 24, 2014 6:58 pm

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, holds a broken religious mosaic, during his visit to the Christian village of Maaloula, near Damascus, Syria, Sunday April, 20, 2014. Assad toured a historic Christian village his forces recently captured from rebels, state media said, as the country's Greek Orthodox Patriarch vowed that Christians in the war-ravaged country "will not submit and yield" to extremists. The rebels, including fighters from the al-Qaida-affiliated Nusra Front, took Maaloula several times late last year. (AP Photo/SANA)

Ahead of vote, Syria’s Assad visits seized village

Barbara Surk · April 20, 2014 7:20 pm

Syria war deepens fears for Lebanon’s missing

Barbara Surk · April 11, 2014 8:36 pm

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, black smoke rises from the rooftop of a building that was, according to SANA, attacked by a mortar shelled by the Syrian rebels in Damascus, Syria, Saturday, April 5, 2014. Al-Qaida's leader, Ayman al-Zawahri, called on fighters to determine who killed his chief representative in Syria, a man many militant groups believe died at the hands of a rival militia, in a move that highlighted a conflict between rebels that has killed hundreds. (AP Photo/SANA)

Iran sends Syria 30,000 tons of food supplies

Barbara Surk · April 8, 2014 10:25 pm

Syrian refugee Yahya, speaks to journalists at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) registration center in the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Thursday, April 3, 2014. The teenager from central Syria became the one millionth Syrian refugee to register in Lebanon on Thursday, a "devastating milestone" for the tiny Arab country with about 4.5 million people of its own, the U.N. refugee agency said. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Lebanon registers 1 million Syrian refugees

Barbara Surk · April 3, 2014 7:52 pm

Activists: Syria conflict death toll hits 150,344

Barbara Surk · April 1, 2014 11:59 pm

Syrian army pounds rebels in Assad’s home province

Barbara Surk · March 31, 2014 2:45 pm

Generation missing out on school in wartime Syria

Barbara Surk · March 15, 2014 4:20 pm