Zeina Karam

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Hezbollah supporters fire weapons as they celebrate the fall of the Syrian town of Qusair to forces loyal to President Bashar Assad and Hezbollah fighters, in Bazzalieh village, Lebanon, near the Lebanese-Syrian border, Wednesday, June 5, 2013. The Syrian army captured a strategic town near the Lebanese border on Wednesday after a grueling three-week battle, handing a heavy defeat to rebels and solidifying a shift in the country's civil war in favor of President Bashar Assad's regime.(AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Syria army deals severe blow to rebels in key town

Bassem Mroue, Zeina Karam · June 5, 2013 4:00 am

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

Syrian regime OKs peace talks amid skepticism

Zeina Karam · May 24, 2013 4:00 am

Lebanese army soldiers help women to be taken out of the Bab Tabbaneh district of Tripoli to safer areas, in the northern port city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Thursday, May. 23, 2013. Opponents and supporters of Syrian President Bashar Assad traded heavy machine gun fire and mortar shells in the Lebanese port city of Tripoli, leaving five people dead in what was described as some of the heaviest fighting there in years, officials said Thursday. (AP Photo)

Clashes in Lebanon feed fear of Syria spillover

Zeina Karam · May 23, 2013 4:00 am

Syrian troops flush out rebels from prison

Zeina Karam · May 16, 2013 10:23 pm

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, President Bashar Assad, right, visits the Umayyad Electrical Station on May Day, a day after a powerful bomb hit the capital. in Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, May 1, 2013. (AP Photo/SANA)

Syrian president showing renewed confidence

Zeina Karam · May 1, 2013 4:00 am

This April 13, 2013 citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center AMC which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows a doctor treating a woman injured in what rebels claim was a chemical attack in Aleppo, Syria. Two Syrian officials denied Friday, April 26, 2013 that government forces had used chemical weapons against rebels, Damascus' first response to U.S. assertions that it had. On Thursday, the White House and other top Obama administration officials said that U.S. intelligence had concluded with "varying degrees of confidence" that the Syrian government has twice used chemical weapons in its civil war.(AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center AMC)

Syrian rebels call on world to put words to action

Bassem Mroue, Zeina Karam · April 26, 2013 4:00 am

This March 6, 2013 citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center AMC which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows the minaret of a famed 12th century Umayyad mosque before it was destroyed by the shelling, in the northern city of Aleppo, Syria. The minaret of a famed 12th century Sunni mosque in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo was destroyed Wednesday, April 24, 2013. President Bashar Assad's regime and anti-government activists traded blame for the attack against the Umayyad mosque, which occurred in the heart Aleppo's walled Old City, a UNESCO World Heritage site.(AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center, AMC)

Syrian troops capture key town near Damascus

Zeina Karam · April 25, 2013 4:00 am

In this image from video broadcast on Syrian state television Wednesday, April 17, 2013, President Bashar Assad speaks during an interview. Syria's president accused the West on Wednesday of backing al-Qaida in his country's civil war, warning it will pay a price "in the heart" of Europe and the United States as the terror network becomes emboldened. The rare TV interview comes as the embattled president's military is fighting to reverse rebel advances, with a rocket attack killing at least 12 people in a central village on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Syrian State TV via AP video)

Assad accuses West of backing al-Qaida in Syria

Zeina Karam · April 17, 2013 4:00 am

This image taken from video obtained from Ugarit News, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows a man holding a scarf in the colors of the Syrian revolutionary flag after rebels seized a military base in Daraa, Syria, on Wednesday, April 3, 2013. Syrian rebels captured a military base in the country's south on Wednesday after days of heavy fighting, activists said, in the latest advance by opposition fighters near the strategic border area with Jordan. (AP Photo/Ugarit News via AP video)

Jordan aid to rebels raises tensions with Syria

Jamal Halaby, Zeina Karam · April 4, 2013 4:00 am

This image taken from video obtained from the Shaam News Network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows a damaged building due to heavy shelling in the Damascus suburb of Daraya, Syria, on Wednesday, April 3, 2013. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video)

Syrian rebels set their sights on strategic south

Zeina Karam · April 3, 2013 4:00 am

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, mourners carry the body of Sheik Mohammad Said Ramadan al-Buti, an 84-year-old pro-government cleric, into the eighth century Omayyad Mosque, in Damascus, Syria, Saturday, March 23, 2013. Al-Buti, his grandson and scores of others were killed Thursday, March 21, 2013 when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives inside a mosque where al-Buti was giving a religious lesson. His assassination was a blow to Assad, who vowed Friday to avenge his death. (AP Photo/SANA)

Clashes near Syria-Israel frontier add to concerns

Zeina Karam · March 23, 2013 4:00 am