Bassem Mroue

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This Wednesday, March. 19, 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, Syrians inspect the rubble of destroyed buildings following a Syrian government airstrike in Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center AMC)

Syrian troops capture famed Crusader castle

Bassem Mroue · March 20, 2014 8:11 pm

Syrian foreign minister’s heart surgery a success

Bassem Mroue · March 14, 2014 4:52 pm

Domestic violence cases spark protests in Lebanon

Bassem Mroue · March 8, 2014 1:25 pm

Extremist group criticizes Syria’s al-Qaida branch

Bassem Mroue · March 7, 2014 2:32 pm

Jihadi fighters withdraw from parts of north Syria

Bassem Mroue · February 28, 2014 6:18 pm

Blast hits army checkpoint in northeastern Lebanon

Bassem Mroue · February 22, 2014 6:26 pm

Syrian troops advance near Golan Heights city

Bassem Mroue · February 22, 2014 5:07 pm

Syrian air force steps up attacks in south

Bassem Mroue · February 21, 2014 2:17 pm

In this photo released by Lebanon's official government photographer Dalati Nohra, Lebanese Prime Minister Tammam Salam, front row, fourth from right, and other Cabinet ministers pose for a group picture at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2014. Salam formed a Cabinet from a wide range of groups across the political spectrum on Saturday, over 10 months after he became premier, after bridging serious divisions between rival political groups mostly over Syria's civil war. (AP Photo/Dalati Nohra)

Lebanese PM belatedly forms his Cabinet

Bassem Mroue · February 15, 2014 10:18 pm

Syrian chief negotiator Bashar Jaafari, Ambassador of the Permanent Representative Mission of Syria to the UN in New York, speaks to the media during a ns conference after the second round of negotiations between the Syrian government and the opposition at the European headquarters of the United Nations, in Geneva, Switzerland, Saturday , Feb. 15, 2014. U.N.-Arab League mediator Lakhdar 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)

Syrian troops bombard town near Lebanon border

Bassem Mroue · February 15, 2014 6:41 pm

Evacuation begins for civilians from Syrian city

Bassem Mroue · February 7, 2014 3:39 pm

FILE- In this Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014 file photo, a Lebanese man sits on his scooter as he speaks with his father on the balcony, in a Shiite neighborhood of a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon. After a wave of car bomb attacks on Hezbollah's stronghold south of Beirut that left scores of people dead or wounded over the past three months, shop owners scared of more bombs have set up sand barriers in front of their institutions to reduce damage in case more blasts occur. The attacks that hit the south Beirut area known as Dahiyeh (suburb) has sacred many people in the area and increased security measures by Lebanese troops and members of the militant group.(AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Beirut suburb on high alert after wave of bombings

Bassem Mroue · January 30, 2014 7:54 pm