Zeina Karam

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In this citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center AMC which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Syrian girls paint their faces with colors of the Syrian revolutionary flag during a fesitval, in Aleppo, Syria, Wednesday March 20, 2013. Syria's main opposition group demanded Wednesday a full international investigation into an alleged chemical weapons attack in the country's north, calling for a team to be sent to the village where it reportedly occurred. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center, AMC)

Syria regime, rebels want probe of chemical attack

Zeina Karam · March 21, 2013 4:00 am

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, the Eman Mosque is seen destroyed after a suicide bomber blew himself up, killing Sheikh Mohammad Said Ramadan al-Buti, an 84-year-old cleric known to all Syrians as a religious scholar, at the Mazraa district, in Damascus, Syria, Thursday, March 21, 2013. A suicide bomber blew himself up during evening prayers inside a mosque in Damascus Thursday, killing a top Sunni Muslim preacher and longtime supporter of President Bashar Assad and least 13 other people, state TV reported. Al-Buti's death is a big blow to Syria's embattled leader, who is fighting mainly Sunni rebels seeking his ouster. (AP Photo/SANA)

Syria: bombing kills top pro-Assad Sunni preacher

Zeina Karam · March 21, 2013 4:00 am

Lebanese army riot soldiers stand guard at a street which was blocked by protesters, after two Sunni Muslim sheikhs at dar al-Fatwa, Lebanon's highest Sunni Authority, were attacked by Shiite men late Sunday, in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday March 18, 2013. A few hundred protesters held a demonstration while others blocked roads after four Sunni Muslim sheiks were assaulted in two separate incidents that inflamed sectarian sentiment in the country. Tensions have been running high in Lebanon in recent months, mainly because of the Syrian civil war raging next door. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Tensions high in Lebanon after assault on clerics

Zeina Karam · March 18, 2013 4:00 am

FILE - In this Feb. 28, 2013 file photo, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, and Syrian opposition coalition leader Mouaz al-Khatib attend a press conference following an international conference on Syria at Villa Madama, Rome. Syria's Western-backed main opposition group , the Syrian National Council, is meeting in Istanbul next week in an attempt to pick a head for a provisional government to administer the increasingly chaotic liberated areas in the north where warlords and bands of gunmen and local councils have sprung up. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca, File)

Syrian opposition pushes for interim government

Zeina Karam · March 14, 2013 4:00 am

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, taken on Monday, Sept. 17, 2012, Syrian president Bashar Assad, right, receives Raqqa Governor Hassan Jalali, left, after he was appointed governor, in Damascus, Syria. Opposition fighters captured Jalali after clashes overnight near the governor's office in the provincial capital, also named Raqqa. Activists said he is one of the highest-ranking officials to fall into rebel hands since the Syrian crisis began nearly two years ago. (AP Photo/SANA)

Syrian jets bomb northern city overrun by rebels

Zeina Karam · March 5, 2013 5:00 am

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem, left, and his Iranian counterpart Ali Akbar Salehi, shake hands, at the conclusion of their press conference, in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, March 2, 2013. The Syrian and Iranian foreign ministers on Saturday accused the United States of double standards over the Obama administration's decision to provide aid to rebels fighting to topple President Bashar Assad, saying this will only prolong the conflict. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Syria, Iran say Assad to remain in power till 2014

Albert Aji, Zeina Karam · March 2, 2013 5:00 am

This citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center AMC, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows people searching through the debris of destroyed buildings in the aftermath of a strike by Syrian government forces, in the neighborhood of Jabal Bedro, Aleppo, Syria, Tuesday Feb. 19, 2013. The U.N. Commission of Inquiry on Syria released a 131-page report Monday, Feb. 18, 2013, detailing deepening radicalization by both sides and says fighters on both sides in Syria's civil war have committed atrocities and should be brought to justice. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center AMC)

Missile strike in northern Syria kills 33

Zeina Karam · February 19, 2013 5:00 am

This image taken from video obtained from Ugarit News, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows smoke and fire billowing from an explosion in Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013. Heavy fighting erupted in Damascus Wednesday as government forces tried to hold back a new rebel effort to push the civil war into the heart of the Syrian capital, activists said.(AP Photo/Ugarit News via AP video)

Islamic summit backs Syria dialogue

Hamza Hendawi, Zeina Karam · February 7, 2013 5:00 am

Lebanese troops clash with gunmen; 3 killed

Zeina Karam · February 1, 2013 4:39 pm

Syria opposition leader would talk to Assad regime

Zeina Karam · January 30, 2013 8:44 pm

Israeli warplanes violate Lebanese airspace

Zeina Karam · January 30, 2013 11:39 am

Bomb explodes south of Beirut

Zeina Karam · January 28, 2013 8:21 pm