Zeina Karam

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This Sunday, Aug. 17, 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, shows a Free Syrian Army fighter aiming his weapon during a battle with Islamic State militants in Aleppo, Syria. Members of the Islamic State group have been marching in the northern province of Aleppo capturing areas under the control of the mainstream Free Syrian Army. Islamic State fighters have overrun nearly a dozen towns and villages in Aleppo province last week crushing what little resistance they have encountered. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center AMC)

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Syria strikes militants as US targets them in Iraq

Zeina Karam · August 19, 2014 8:44 am

This photo taken in August, 2014 shows Associated Press video journalist Simone Camilli on a balcony overlooking smoke from Israeli Strikes in Gaza City. Camilli, 35, was killed in an ordnance explosion in the Gaza Strip, on Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014 together with Palestinian translator Ali Shehda Abu Afash and three members of the Gaza police. Police said four other people were seriously injured, including AP photographer Hatem Moussa.(AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

AP video journalist Simone Camilli killed in Gaza

Zeina Karam · August 13, 2014 8:29 pm

Islamic militants seize 2 northern Syrian towns

Zeina Karam · August 13, 2014 2:42 pm

Lebanon’s former PM returns from exile amid crisis

Zeina Karam · August 8, 2014 12:57 pm

Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah speaks during a rally to mark Jerusalem Day or Al-Quds day, in the southern 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)

Hezbollah leader vows to support Gazans

Zeina Karam · July 25, 2014 5:22 pm

In this photo released on the official Facebook page of the Syrian Presidency, Syria's President Bashar Assad is sworn for his third, seven-year term, in Damascus, Syria, Wednesday July 16, 2014. Proclaiming the Syrian people winners in a "dirty war" waged by outsiders, President Bashar Assad was sworn in on Wednesday, marking the start of his third seven-year term in office amid a bloody civil war that has ravaged the Arab country. (AP Photo/Syrian Presidency via Facebook)

Assad declares victory, push to topple him tenuous

Zeina Karam · July 16, 2014 7:24 pm

A Palestinian vendors displays food, including pickled vegetables and olives, in preparation for Ramadan at a market in the West Bank city of Hebron, Saturday, June 28, 2014. Muslims throughout the world are preparing themselves for the holy month of Ramadan, when the observant fast from dawn till dusk. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

From Morocco to Jakarta, Muslims mark Ramadan

Zeina Karam · June 29, 2014 12:08 pm

FILE - This undated file image posted on a militant website on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows fighters from the al-Qaida linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) marching in Raqqa, Syria. Moderate Syrian rebels are buckling under the onslaught of the radical al-Qaida breakaway group that has swept over large parts of Iraq and Syria. Some rebels are giving up the fight, crippled by lack of weapons and frustrated with the power of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Other, more hard-line Syrian fighters are bending to the winds and joining the radicals. (AP Photo/Militant Website, File)

Syrian rebels buckling in face of jihadis

Zeina Karam · June 28, 2014 12:11 am

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrians gather at the site of a car bombing in Homs, Syria, Tuesday, June 24, 2014. An explosion struck the central Syrian city of Homs, killing and wounding several people, in the latest blast to hit the city in recent weeks, Syrian media and an activist group said. (AP Photo/SANA)

Al-Qaida in border town pledges loyalty to rivals

Zeina Karam · June 25, 2014 8:44 pm

Lebanese army and citizens gather at the site of a car bombing in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, June 24, 2014. A powerful car bomb explosion rocked a neighborhood south of the Lebanese capital Tuesday, causing several casualties, a Lebanese security official and witnesses said. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

1 killed, 20 hurt in overnight bombing in Lebanon

Zeina Karam · June 24, 2014 5:53 pm

Suicide attacker strikes near cafe south of Beirut

Zeina Karam · June 23, 2014 10:31 pm

Lebanese police intelligence gather outside a hotel after security forces raided there in Beirut's Hamra district, Lebanon, Friday, June 20, 2014. Security forces raided the hotel over suspected "terrorist cells" inside it, a police official said. In eastern Lebanon, a suicide bomber detonated his vehicle Friday near a police checkpoint, killing a few people amid heightened concerns of renewed violence, the country's state-run news agency and security officials said. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Bombing, arrests spark fear in Lebanon

Zeina Karam · June 20, 2014 8:55 pm