Zeina Karam

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3 Hezbollah members killed in weapons depot blast

Zeina Karam · October 3, 2012 3:56 pm

A Free Syrian Army soldier, stands on a damaged Syrian military tank in front of a damaged mosque, which were destroyed during fighting with government forces, in the Syrian town of Azaz, on the outskirts of Aleppo, Sunday, Sept. 23, 2012. Syria's bloody 18-month conflict, which activists say has killed nearly 30,000 people, has so far eluded all attempts at international mediation.(AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Syrian opposition figures meet in Damascus

Albert Aji, Zeina Karam · September 23, 2012 4:00 am

A Muslim man prepares to throw a rock at police officers during a protest against American-made film "Innocence of Muslims" that ridicules Islam and depicts the Prophet Muhammad as a fraud, a womanizer and a madman, outside the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, Sept. 17, 2012. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

Hezbollah leads massive anti-US protest in Lebanon

Zeina Karam · September 17, 2012 4:00 am

This citizen journalism image provided by Shaam News Network (SNN), taken on Sunday, Aug. 26, 2012, purports to show children killed by shabiha, pro-government militiamen, being prepared for burial in a mass grave in Daraya, Syria. According to activists' accounts, government forces retook the Damascus suburb of Daraya from rebel control three days earlier and have since gone on a killing spree. Reports of the death toll range widely from more than 300 to as many as 600. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network, SNN)THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS CITIZEN JOURNALIST IMAGE

Syrian rebels claim to shoot down helicopter

Zeina Karam · August 27, 2012 4:00 am

Syrian Deputy Prime Minister Qadri Jamil, center, and Minister for National Reconciliation Ali Haidar, left, speak during a news conference in Moscow, Tuesday Aug. 21, 2012. Unidentified man at right. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)

Syrian official warns US against intervention

Zeina Karam · August 21, 2012 4:00 am

FILE - In this Wednesday, March 21, 2012 file photo, Syrian Kurds living in Lebanon and opposed to Syrian President Bashar Assad, hold up a Kurdish flag, right, and a Syrian revolution flag, left, as they chant slogans against the Syrian regime as they celebrate the Nowruz day in Beirut, Lebanon. Last month, while the world's attention focused on the battles raging in Syria's two largest cities, a quiet transformation was taking place in the country's oil-rich northeastern corner where about 2 million people from Syria's Kurdish minority live. In mid July, shortly after rebels struck in the Syrian capital with unprecedented attacks and a bomb blast that killed four of President Bashar Assad's top security aides, Syrian security forces began pulling back from several towns and villages across the border area, ceding defacto control to armed Kurdish fighters who have since set up checkpoints, hoisted Kurdish flags, and began exercising a degree of autonomy unheard of before. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)

Syria war empowers long-oppressed Kurdish minority

Zeina Karam · August 20, 2012 4:00 am

This image made from amateur video released by Tabshoor1 and accessed Tuesday, July 31, 2012, purports to show Free Syrian Army soldiers executing Assad loyalists in Aleppo, Syria. A gruesome video apparently showing rebels gunning down Assad loyalists in Aleppo this week has fueled concerns that opposition fighters in Syria are capable of brutality that matches that of the regime they are fighting to topple. (AP Photo/Tabshoor1 via AP video) THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS HANDOUT PHOTO

Syrian rebels accused of executions, other abuses

Zeina Karam · August 2, 2012 4:00 am

A Syrian refugee passes by the playground at the Jordanian-run Al Bashabsheh refugee camp in Ramtha, Jordan,Tuesday, July 17, 2012. After a visit to the camp Tuesday, the British Foreign Secretary William Hague, not shown, said implementing U.N. special envoy Kofi Annan's peace plan is the "best hope" for ending the civil war in Syria. (AP photo/Mohammad Hannon)

Clashes spread to new areas in Syrian capital

Zeina Karam · July 17, 2012 4:00 am

In this citizen journalism image provided by Shaam News Network SNN, taken on Friday, July 6, 2012, a Syrian boy, center, holds a poster with Arabic which reads, "a message to Bashar, you cut water and electricity, but you will not cut prayer," during a demonstration in Idlib, north Syria. Syria's military began large-scale exercises simulating defense against outside "aggression," the state-run news agency said Sunday an apparent warning to other countries not to intervene in the country's crisis. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network, SNN)THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS HANDOUT PHOTO

Syrian military holds exercises in show of force

Albert Aji, Zeina Karam · July 8, 2012 4:00 am

Lebanon releases 9 Islamists held 5 years

Zeina Karam · June 19, 2012 1:20 pm

West avoiding action in Syria, blaming Russia

Zeina Karam · June 18, 2012 8:07 pm

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian soldiers stand at the explosion site where a car bomb exploded near the shrine of Sayyida Zeinab, seen in the background, suburb of Damascus, Syria, Thursday, June 14, 2012. A car bomb exploded Thursday in a Damascus suburb that is home to a popular Shiite Muslim shrine, wounding at least two people, Syria's state-run news agency SANA reported, while activists said regime troops continued shelling rebellious areas in central Homs province. (AP Photo/SANA)

Troops shell rebel areas in north, central Syria

Zeina Karam · June 14, 2012 10:14 pm