Bassem Mroue

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Thousands flee Syrian cities ahead of election

Bassem Mroue · May 30, 2014 6:42 pm

Hezbollah commander wanted by FBI killed in Syria

Bassem Mroue · May 28, 2014 2:49 pm

Rocket attack kills 13 in Syria’s Aleppo

Bassem Mroue · May 16, 2014 3:56 pm

Syrians walk on a street decorated with campaign posters of the June 3 presidential election in Damascus, Syria, Monday, May 12, 2014. The Arabic, top center, reads, "Let's fight corruption, Hassan al-Nouri, June 4, 2014." The one, center, reads, "Damascus spreads flowers for the loyal Bashar." On billboards and in posters taped to car windows, new portraits of President Bashar Assad filled the streets of Damascus on Sunday as Syria officially opened its presidential campaign despite a crippling civil war that has devastated the country and left large chunks of territory outside of government control. Assad faces two other candidates in the race: Maher Hajjar and Hassan al-Nouri, both members of the so-called internal opposition tolerated by the government. (AP Photo)

Battles rage in eastern Syria, activists say

Bassem Mroue · May 12, 2014 6:41 pm

FILE - This Tuesday, March 15, 2011 file photo shows the newly elected Maronite Patriarch Bechara Rai shortly after his election at the church's seat in Bkirki, northeast of Beirut, Lebanon. A planned visit by the leader of Lebanon's largest church to Jerusalem later this month has led to a controversy in this tiny Arab country that Israel invaded in the past and occupied parts of it for more than a decade. Rai, head of the Maronite Catholic church throughout the region, will be the first leader of the Middle Eastern church to visit the Holy Land since Israel was created in 1948. Rai says he is going to welcome Pope Francis who is scheduled to visit Jordan, the West Bank and Israel from May 24 to 26, 2014. Lebanon bans its citizens from visiting Israel or having contact with Israelis. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)

Lebanese cardinal criticized over Jerusalem visit

Bassem Mroue · May 9, 2014 7:40 pm

In this image made from amateur video released by Ugarit News, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Syrian rebels board a bus to leave Homs, Syria, Wednesday, May 7, 2014. Exhausted and worn out from a year-long siege, hundreds of Syrian rebels on Wednesday left their last remaining bastions in the heart of the central city of Homs under a cease-fire deal with government forces. The exit of some 1,200 fighters and civilians will mark a de facto end of the rebellion in the battered city, which was one of the first places to rise up against President Bashar Assad's rule, earning it the nickname of "capital of the revolution."(AP Photo/Ugarit News via AP Video)

Rebels evacuating strongholds in Syria’s Homs

Bassem Mroue · May 7, 2014 6:05 pm

In this Friday, April 11, 2014 image made from amateur video provided by the Shams News Network, a loosely organized anti-Assad group based in and out of Syria that claim not to have any connection to Syrian opposition parties or any other states, and which is consistent with independent AP reporting, a man lies on the floor with an oxygen mask at a hospital room in Kfar Zeita, some 200 kilometers (125 miles) north of Damascus, Syria. Syrian government media and rebel forces said Saturday, April 12, 2014 that poison gas had been used in the village, on Friday injuring scores of people, while blaming each other for the attack. (AP Photo/Shams News Network)

Poison gas claims complicate Syrian civil war

Bassem Mroue · April 13, 2014 12:40 am

Hezbollah develops new tactics in Syrian civil war

Bassem Mroue · April 12, 2014 12:44 pm

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Flames rise from damaged cars at the site where two car bombs exploded at a commercial street inhabited mostly by members of President Bashar Assad's minority Alawite sect, in Homs province, central Syria, Wednesday April 9, 2014. Two car bombs exploded Wednesday in a government-held district of Syria's battleground city of Homs, killing at least 25 people and wounding more than 100, state media said. (AP Photo/SANA)

Syria death toll from rebel infighting rises to 68

Bassem Mroue · April 11, 2014 2:59 pm

Syrian media: Mortar fire kills 6 near Damascus

Bassem Mroue · April 3, 2014 5:43 pm

Assad preparing to run for president despite war

Bassem Mroue · March 29, 2014 8:42 am

This Tuesday, March. 18, 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, a Syrian man, injured by a government airstrike, walks outside a damaged building in Aleppo, Syria. Activists said Syrian warplanes and helicopter gunships carried out several air raids in the northern province of Aleppo on Tuesday killing and wounding a number of people. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center, AMC)

Syrian troops and rebels clash near Turkish border

Bassem Mroue · March 22, 2014 6:27 pm