Bassem Mroue

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Jihadis release video of captured Lebanese troops

Bassem Mroue · August 23, 2014 3:22 pm

Reports: Islamic State group kills Syria tribesmen

Bassem Mroue · August 18, 2014 5:00 pm

Jihadists closing in on Syrian rebel stronghold

Bassem Mroue · August 16, 2014 7:02 pm

This image posted by the Raqqa Media Center shows fighters from the Islamic State group on top of a military vehicle with anti-aircraft guns in Raqqa, Syria, Thursday, Aug 7, 2014. The Islamic State militants seized the Brigade 93 base overnight after days of heavy fighting, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Raqqa Media Center, an activist collective. The base lies some 40 miles (60 kilometers) from the provincial capital of Raqqa, a stronghold for the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Raqqa Media Center)

Islamic militants crush tribal uprising in Syria

Bassem Mroue · August 11, 2014 4:10 pm

FILE - This undated file photo posted by the Raqqa Media Center, a Syrian opposition group, on Monday, June 30, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows fighters from extremist Islamic State group during a parade in Raqqa, Syria. Activists have reported two cases of stoning this month in the Syrian northern province of Raqqa. The first case of stoning occurred in the town of Tabqa. A day after the July 17, 2014, stoning of Shamseh Mohammed Abdullah, 26, Faddah al-Sayed Ahmad was stoned to death in the provincial capital of Raqqa. (AP Photo/Raqqa Media Center, File)

Women stoned to death in Syria for adultery

Bassem Mroue · August 9, 2014 5:44 pm

Lebanese army soldiers flash victory signs while in an armored personnel carrier as reinforcements arrive to the outskirts of Arsal, a predominantly Sunni Muslim town near the Syrian border in eastern Lebanon, Monday, Aug. 4, 2014. Thousands of Lebanese civilians and Syrian refugees packed cars and pickup trucks Monday, fleeing an eastern border town that was overrun by militants from neighboring Syria as Lebanese troops fight to liberate the area. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Lebanese army agrees to 24-hour truce in town

Bassem Mroue · August 5, 2014 5:19 pm

A Lebanese family wait to depart in a minibus on the outskirts of Arsal, a predominantly Sunni Muslim town near the Syrian border in eastern Lebanon, Monday, Aug. 4, 2014. Thousands of Lebanese civilians and Syrian refugees packed cars and pickup trucks Monday, fleeing an eastern border town that was overrun by militants from neighboring Syria as Lebanese troops fight to liberate the area. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Lebanese army battles Syrian rebels holding town

Bassem Mroue · August 4, 2014 5:17 pm

Syria rebels raid Lebanese town, capture troops

Bassem Mroue · August 3, 2014 12:00 am

Supporters listen as Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, center, speaks during a rally to mark Jerusalem Day or Al-Quds Day, in suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, July 25, 2014. Nasrallah said that the "resistance" in Gaza became victorious after the Zionists and all their backers worldwide failed in achieving any of their goals. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Lebanese Hezbollah commander killed in Iraq

Bassem Mroue · July 31, 2014 1:44 pm

Rights group: Syria using barrel bombs, defying UN

Bassem Mroue · July 30, 2014 4:02 pm

This undated frame grab from video provided by the Manara al-Bayda, the media arm of the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front, on Friday, July 25, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows American suicide attacker Moner Mohammad Abu-Salha, who was known among rebels as Hurayra al-Amriki. Abu-Salha is the first American to carry out a suicide attack in Syria's civil war. (AP Photo/Manara al-Bayda)

National Security

Video shows smiling American bomber in Syria

Bassem Mroue · July 27, 2014 2:27 am

Syrian troops seek to retake jihadi-held gas field

Bassem Mroue · July 19, 2014 1:51 pm