Karin Laub

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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights South African Navi Pillay addresses her statement during the urgent debate on the situation in Syria at the 23rd session of the Human Rights Council, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, May 29, 2013. Syria's civil war is spilling out of control and represents a massive failure to protect citizens against war crimes and crimes against humanity that are now a routine occurrence according to the UN's top human rights official Pillay. (AP Photo/Keystone, Martial Trezzini)

Syria says Assad will remain president until 2014

Karin Laub, Zeina Karam · May 29, 2013 4:00 am

FILE - In this undated file photo a Russian S-300 anti-aircraft missile system is on display in an undisclosed location in Russia. Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Tuesday, May 28, 2013, that Moscow has a contract for the delivery of the S-300s to Syria and sees the deal as a key deterrent against foreign invasion in that country. The Deputy Foreign Minister wouldn't say whether Russia has shipped any of the long-range S-300 air defense missile systems, but added that Moscow isn't going to abandon the deal despite strong Western and Israeli criticism(AP Photo, File)

Syria diplomacy a priority, despite EU arms vote

Karin Laub, Jamey Keaten · May 28, 2013 4:00 am

This citizen journalism image provided by Qusair Lens, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows a Syrian man checking his destroyed house that was damaged by a Syrian forces air strike in the town of Qusair, near the Lebanon border, Homs province, Syria, Tuesday, May 21, 2013. Several members of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group died of wounds sustained while fighting for control of a strategic Syrian town near the Lebanese border, activists said Tuesday, as the battle in the area raged for its third straight day. (AP Photo/Qusair Lens)

Syria opposition signals tough line on peace talks

Karin Laub, Bradley Klapper · May 21, 2013 4:00 am

In this Saturday, May 18, 2013 citizen journalism image provided by Qusair Lens which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Syrians inspecting the rubble of damaged buildings due to government airstrikes, in Qusair, Homs province, Syria. The town of Qusair has been besieged for weeks by regime troops and pro-government gunmen backed by the Lebanese militant Hezbollah group. The siege is part of a withering offensives forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad have been pushing in recent weeks to regain control of the towns and villages along the Lebanese frontier. (AP Photo/Qusair Lens)

Syrian troops push into strategic rebel-held town

Karin Laub · May 19, 2013 4:00 am

FILE - This Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009 file photo shows Syrian President Bashar Assad, seen, during a meeting with his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, unseen, at the presidency in Tehran, Iran. Syrian President Bashar Assad says he won't step down before elections are held in his war-ravaged country. The Syrian leader's comments, published Saturday in the Argentine newspaper Clarin, highlight the difficulties the U.S. and Russia face in getting the Assad regime and Syria's political opposition to the table at an international conference envisioned for next month. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

Assad: Syria transition talks are internal matter

Karin Laub · May 18, 2013 4:00 am

This citizen journalism image provided by Edlib News Network, ENN, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows anti-Syrian regime protesters carrying a banner during a demonstration in Kafr Nabil in Idlib province, northern Syria, Friday, May 17, 2013. Rights activists have found torture devices and other evidence of abuse in government prisons in the first Syrian city to fall to the rebels, Human Rights Watch said in a report Friday. (AP Photo/Edlib News Network ENN)

Rights groups: Syria holds thousands incommunicado

Karin Laub · May 17, 2013 4:00 am

In this citizen journalism image provided by Edlib News Network, ENN, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, anti-Syrian regime protesters hold a poster depicting Syrian President Bashar Assad, left, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, right, during a demonstration, at Kafr Nabil town, in Idlib province, northern Syria, Friday May 10, 2013. Arabic banner on the background reads, "Kafr Nabil." (AP Photo/Edlib News Network ENN)

Russia says it will keep selling missiles to Syria

Karin Laub, Monika Scislowska · May 10, 2013 4:00 am

In this image taken from video obtained from the Ugarit News, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, smoke and fire fill the the skyline over Damascus, Syria, early Sunday, May 5, 2013 after an Israeli airstrike. Israeli warplanes struck areas in and around the Syrian capital Sunday, setting off a series of explosions as they targeted a shipment of highly accurate, Iranian-made guided missiles believed to be on their way to Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group, officials and activists said. The attack, the second in three days, signaled a sharp escalation of Israel's involvement in Syria's bloody civil war. Syria's state media reported that Israeli missiles struck a military and scientific research center near the Syrian capital and caused casualties. (AP Photo/Ugarit News via AP video)

Israeli airstrike in Syria aimed at Iran

Karin Laub, Josef Federman · May 6, 2013 4:00 am

FILE - In this June 3, 2012 file photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad delivers a speech at the parliament in Damascus, Syria. Israel launched an airstrike into Syria, apparently targeting a suspected weapons site, U.S. officials said Friday night, May 3, 2013. (AP Photo/SANA, File)

Israel enforces ‘red line’ with Syria airstrike

Karin Laub, Josef Federman · May 4, 2013 4:00 am

FILE - In this Tuesday, June 28, 2011 file photo, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in the West Bank city of Ramallah. A spokesman says Fayyad has been hospitalized with an abdominal infection on Monday, April 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed, File)

Palestinian PM hospitalized with abdominal pain

Karin Laub · April 1, 2013 4:00 am

In this Saturday, 30 March, 2013 photo, Palestinian journalist Mamdooh Hamamreh adjusts his glasses during an interview to the Associated Press in the West Bank village of Hussan, near Bethlehem. Last week an appeals court in the West Bank upheld a one-year prison term for Mamdooh Hamamreh for "defaming" Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in a Facebook post. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)

Palestinian leader clamps down on critics

Karin Laub, Dalia Nammari · March 31, 2013 4:00 am

In this citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center AMC which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, anti-Syrian regime protesters raise up their hands as they wave Syrian revolutionary flags during a protest to mark the second anniversary of the their uprising, in Aleppo, Syria, Friday March 15, 2013. The chief of Syria's main, western-backed rebel group marked the second anniversary of the start of the uprising against President Bashar Assad on Friday by pledging to fight until the "criminal" regime is gone. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center, AMC)

Syria opposition to set up interim government

Karin Laub · March 17, 2013 4:00 am