Barbara Surk

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Battle for Syrian rebel town erases Lebanon border

Barbara Surk · March 6, 2014 4:28 pm

Lebanon’s political system sinks nation into debt

Barbara Surk · March 5, 2014 2:06 am

A United Nations refugee agency aid worker guides a forklift truck driver to offload its aid for Syria at the UNHCR warehouses in Dubai.

Deadly blast rocks Syria border crossing

Barbara Surk · February 20, 2014 4:53 pm

UN-Arab League envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi speaks during a news conference after closing the second round of negotiation between the Syrian government and the opposition at the European headquarters of the United Nations, in Geneva, Switzerland, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2014. Brahimi ended direct talks between the Syrian government and opposition Saturday without finding a way of breaking the impasse in peace talks. Saturday's talks, which lasted less than half an hour, left the future of the negotiating process in doubt. (AP Photo/Keystone, Salvatore Di Nolfi)

Syria says US created ‘negative climate’ in Geneva

Barbara Surk · February 17, 2014 2:44 am

FILE- In this Thursday, Feb. 13, 2014 file photo, Lebanon's Jacky Chamoun sits near the alpine ski course finish area at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. An old video of Jacky Chamoun posing for a snow calendar photo shoot that recently surfaced on the Internet, as she prepared for Alpine skiing at the Sochi Olympics, has prompted a Lebanese government official to order an investigation, while many thousands of supporters have jumped to her defense. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, FILE)

Lebanese rally behind Olympic skier who posed nude

Barbara Surk · February 14, 2014 8:29 pm

In this photo taken on Sunday Feb. 9, 2014, and released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian citizens walk towards a bus to evacuate the battleground city of Homs, Syria. A Syrian Red Crescent official says around 300 more people were evacuated Monday from besieged rebel-held neighborhoods of Syria's third-largest city, Homs. (AP Photo/SANA)

Despite Homs truce, no evacuations, no food entry

Barbara Surk · February 11, 2014 8:55 pm

FILE - In this file photo taken Friday, Oct. 26, 2012, displaced Syrian children gather barefoot in a refugee camp near Atma, Idlib province, Syria. Children in Syria have been tortured, maimed and sexually abused by President Bashar Assad's forces and recruited for combat by the rebels fighting to topple him, according to a new United Nations report, posted on the U.N. website late Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo, File)

UN: ‘Unspeakable suffering’ for Syria’s children

Barbara Surk · February 5, 2014 8:15 pm

Report: Gunmen kill 3 Lebanese troops near Syria

Report: Gunmen kill 3 Lebanese troops near Syria

Barbara Surk · May 28, 2013 8:09 am

Syrian warplanes pound rebel positions in north

Syrian warplanes pound rebel positions in north

Barbara Surk · May 9, 2013 3:17 pm

Israeli soldiers stand atop of a tank during a military exercise in the Israeli controlled Golan Heights, near the border with Syria, Tuesday, May 7, 2013. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

President Assad says Syria able to face Israel

Barbara Surk · May 7, 2013 4:00 am

Activists: Mortar attacks near Damascus kill 7

Activists: Mortar attacks near Damascus kill 7

Barbara Surk · April 24, 2013 12:14 pm

FILE - In this Sunday, Jan. 6, 2013 file photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad gestures speaks at the Opera House in central Damascus, Syria. Assad has warned that the fall of his regime or the breakup of Syria will unleash a wave of instability that will shake the Middle East for years to come. Assad told the Turkish TV station Ulusal Kanal in an interview aired Friday, April 5, 2013 that "we are surrounded by countries that help terrorists and allow them to enter Syria." (AP Photo/SANA, File)

Syrian regime launches counteroffensive on rebels

Barbara Surk · April 7, 2013 4:00 am