Karin Laub

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FILE - In this Thursday Jan. 26, 2006 file photo, Riad Seif, a leading Syrian opposition figure and a member of the opposition Syrian National Council, speaks a week after his release from prison in Damascus, Syria. Members of Syria's opposition-in-exile bristle at the Obama administration's suggestion that Washington will handpick more representative leaders including Seif at a crucial conference in Qatar next week. The new U.S. push appears aimed at creating a unified body that could work more closely with the West, but groups both inside Syria and out will likely resist over concerns that foreign countries will dictate the course of their civil war. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi, file)

Divided Syrian opposition faces feuds over leaders

Karin Laub, Zeina Karam · November 3, 2012 4:00 am

Syria commits to 4-day truce, but prospects dim

Karin Laub, Ben Hubbard · October 25, 2012 4:00 am

U.N.-Arab League envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi talks during a joint press conference with the Arab League Secretary-General Nabil Elaraby, unseen, following their meeting at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012. The U.N.-Arab League envoy to Syria says the Syrian government and some rebel leaders have agreed to a ceasefire during the upcoming Muslim four-day holiday. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

UN Security Council endorses Syria holiday truce

Karin Laub, Ben Hubbard · October 24, 2012 4:00 am

FILE - In this Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012 file photo, a Free Syrian Army fighter shoots his machine gun towards Syrian Army positions in the Amriya district of Aleppo, Syria. Piece by piece, Syria's rebels are slowly starting to expand their arsenal and get their hands on more advanced weapons, something that has been their constant aim in the 19-month-old uprising against the regime of President Bashar Assad. The process still appears to be haphazard and improvised: Far from a reliable, organized pipeline, it often remains a scramble by individual units in the highly fragmented rebel forces to obtain what they can. Most units still rely on their staple arsenal of automatic weapons, hand grenades and rocket-propelled grenades. (AP Photo/ Manu Brabo, File)

Syrian warplanes strike rebel-held town in north

Karin Laub · October 23, 2012 4:00 am

This citizen journalism image taken from video provided by Ugarit News, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows what Human Rights Watch says are cluster bombs dropped in Tamanea, Syria on Oct. 9, 2012. The New York-based Human Rights Watch said the use of such bombs in Syria's civil war is the latest sign of Syrian President Bashar Assad's disregard for his own people. Syrian government officials had no immediate comment. (AP Photo/Ugarit News via Human Rights Watch)

Syria accused of cluster bomb use in civil war

Karin Laub · October 14, 2012 4:00 am

FILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012 file photo, a general view of hangars at a desert military training facility where U.S. forces _ and a handful of British allies _ are training Jordanian commandos in Russeifeh, Jordan, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012. The U.S. and regional allies are closely monitoring Syria's chemical weapons but seem to have few good options other for securing the toxic agents stuffed into shells, bombs and missiles that have been caught in the midst of a raging civil war. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon, File)

Few good options to secure Syria chemical arsenal

Karin Laub · October 13, 2012 4:00 am

In this picture taken on March 4, 2007, a Syrian vendor sits inside his shop, at the souk in the old city of Aleppo city, Syria. Fires sparked by clashes between government troops and rebels raged through the medieval marketplace of Aleppo on Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012, destroying hundreds of shops lining the vaulted passageways where foods, fabrics, perfumes and spices have been sold for centuries, activists said. (AP Photo/Muzaffar Salman)

Syria suicide blast kills 4 at security compound

Karin Laub · September 30, 2012 4:00 am

Syrian military’s text to rebels: ‘Game over’

Karin Laub · September 27, 2012 4:00 am

A woman cries near the body of her brother in front of Dar El Shifa hospital in Aleppo, Syria, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2012. Over the past few months, rebels have increasingly targeted security sites and symbols of regime power in a bid to turn the tide in Syria's 18-month conflict, which activists say has left some 30,000 people dead.(AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

Rebels strike Syrian power center with car bombs

Karin Laub · September 26, 2012 4:00 am

In this Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012 photo, the body of an elderly man, said by rebels to be a Coptic Christian, lies at the door of a hospital controlled by the Free Syrian Army in Aleppo, Syria.(AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

Syrian activists: airstrikes kill at least 30

Karin Laub · September 20, 2012 4:00 am

In this Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2012 photo, Palestinian Hamas border guards patrol the Egyptian Gaza border while an Egyptian bulldozer works on the demolition of a smuggling tunnel, as seen from Rafah, southern Gaza Strip. Hamas had hoped the Islamists who took charge in Egypt this summer -- fellow members of the region's Muslim Brotherhood -- would swiftly turn the shared border crossing into a free-flowing trade route, ending Gaza's five-year isolation from the world and making the tunnels obsolete. (AP Photo/Eyad Baba)

Hamas scales back hopes of open Egypt border

Karin Laub · August 25, 2012 4:00 am

Palestinian cash crisis getting worse: minister

Karin Laub · July 26, 2012 6:12 pm