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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 590

Bassam Mroue

Illustrative: A Blackhawk helicopter lands next to an Apache attack helicopter at a US military base at undisclosed location in Eastern Syria, November 11, 2019. (Darko Bandic/AP)
June 13, 2023, 9:08 am
US says 22 soldiers hurt in helicopter ‘mishap’ in northeast Syria
American military investigating cause of accident, says there was no enemy fire; 10 of the injured moved to ‘higher care facilities’
By Bassam Mroue
In this photo provided by Saudi Press Agency, SPA, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, left, is greeted by Prince Badr Bin Sultan, deputy governor of Mecca, upon his arrival at Jeddah airport, Saudi Arabia, May 19, 2023, to attend the Arab summit. (Saudi Press Agency via AP)
May 19, 2023, 4:47 pm
Addressing Arab leaders in Saudi Arabia, Zelensky vows Ukraine ‘will never submit’
Ukrainian president attends Jeddah summit as part of efforts to rally world support, swipes at Iran for supplying drones to Russia; Syria’s Assad welcomed back after 12 years
By Bassam Mroue
Syrian President Bashar Assad, talks to Ahmed Aboul Gheit, secretary-general of the Arab League, upon his arrival at Jeddah airport, Saudi Arabia, May 18, 2023, ahead of the Arab summit. (Saudi Press Agency via AP)
May 19, 2023, 12:04 pm
Arab leaders, joined by Assad, look to resolve conflicts at summit in Saudi Arabia
Umbrella group expected to reiterate its perennial criticism of Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians at a time of soaring tensions
By Bassam Mroue
Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, meets with Saudi Arabia ambassador to Jordan Nayef al-Sadiri, in Damascus, Syria, May 10, 2023. (Syrian Presidency Facebook page via AP)
May 18, 2023, 4:21 pm
Returning to Arab fold, Syrian president heads to Saudi Arabia for regional summit
Bashar Assad to participate in 22-member Arab League meeting following 12-year suspension amid restoration of ties with Riyadh
By Bassam Mroue
Illustrative - Jordanian soldiers patrol along the eastern Jordan-Syria border, in al-Washash, Mafraq governorate, Jordan, February 17, 2022. (Raad Adayleh/AP)
May 8, 2023, 3:30 pm
Alleged Jordanian airstrikes kill Syrian drug kingpin, his wife and six children
War monitor says Amman likely behind bombings that targeted home of Merhi Ramthan near its border and drug factory in southern province of Daraa
By Kareem Chehayeb and Bassam Mroue
Jordan's Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi, center background, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, second left, Iraqi Foreign Minister Fouad Hussein, left, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, right, and Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad, second right, attend a regional consultative meeting in Amman, Jordan, May 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)
May 5, 2023, 3:21 pm
Arab ministers to hold emergency meeting over Syria’s potential return to Arab League
Jordan’s Foreign Minister Safadi believes there are enough votes for Damascus to return to body; talks will also focus on Sudan and ‘recent events’ in Israel, West Bank, Gaza
By Samy Magdy and Bassam Mroue
This photo released on Monday, Sept 4, 2017 by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows Syrian troops and pro-government gunmen standing on pickup trucks with heavy machine-guns mounted on them, in the eastern city of Deir el-Zour, Syria. (SANA via AP)
March 25, 2023, 4:50 pm
Iran-backed fighters on alert in eastern Syria after US retaliates for deadly attack
Tehran warns any further American airstrikes on Iranian bases in the country ‘will immediately face an answer’
By Bassam Mroue
Retired army soldiers and other protesters who are demanding better pay clash with Lebanese army and riot police, in Beirut, Lebanon, March 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
March 22, 2023, 3:26 pm
Clashes as retired Lebanese soldiers try to storm government HQ in protest
Violence comes amid widespread anger over the harsh economic conditions in the country, where mismanagement by the ruling class has been rampant for years
By Bassam Mroue
A baby girl who was born under the rubble caused by an earthquake that hit Syria and Turkey receives treatment inside an incubator at a children's hospital in the town of Afrin, Aleppo province, Syria, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
February 14, 2023, 9:13 am
Girl born under rubble in quake-hit Syria in good health a week after rescue
Baby, named Aya, being breastfed by wife of hospital director after the mother died; her father and four siblings were also killed in the earthquake
By Bassam Mroue
Rescue teams search through the wreckage of collapsed buildings after a devastating earthquake rocked Syria and Turkey, in Aleppo, Syria, February 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki, File)
February 9, 2023, 7:11 pm
Earthquake stuns Syria’s Aleppo, even after destruction of civil war
With historic city still largely ruined from years of battle, residents express shock at scale of quake’s devastation; ‘It was the first time in my life I got scared,’ one says
By Kareem Chehayeb and Bassam Mroue
A member of Green Without Borders a non-governmental organization plants a tree in a nature reserve in the outskirts of the southern town of Nabatiyeh, Lebanon, January 18, 2023. (Mohammed Zaatari/AP)
January 25, 2023, 5:34 pm
Lebanon environmental group denies it’s Hezbollah, but locals tell different story
Though Shiite residents in border area back assertion by Green Without Borders that it’s just planting trees, Christian villagers say they’ve been confronted by armed men
By FAY ABUELGASIM and Bassam Mroue
File: People look at a site damaged by Turkish airstrikes that hit an electricity station in the village of Taql Baql, in Hasakeh province, Syria, Sunday, Nov. 20, 2022 (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad, File)
December 10, 2022, 7:19 pm
What’s at stake as Turkey threatens to escalate conflict with Syrian fighters?
After deadly blast in Istanbul last month, attributed by Turkey to illegal Kurdish groups, specter of incursion raised as Ankara responds with airstrikes against militants in Syria
By Suzan Fraser and Bassam Mroue
A fighter from the Christian Syriac militia that battles the Islamic State group under the banner of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, burns an IS flag on the front line on the western side of Raqqa, northeast Syria, July 17, 2017. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)
December 1, 2022, 10:16 pm
Syrian rebels didn’t know jihadist they killed was Islamic State leader
‘We were taken by surprise,’ opposition activist says of revelation that Abu al-Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi died during operation in October
By Bassam Mroue
Women walk in the al-Hol camp that houses some 60,000 refugees, including families and supporters of the Islamic State group, many of them foreign nationals, in Hasakeh province, Syria, May 1, 2021. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and local officials said Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022 that the beheaded bodies of two Egyptian girls were found Tuesday in a sprawling camp in northeastern Syria housing tens of thousands of women and children linked to the Islamic State group. (AP/Baderkhan Ahmad, File)
November 17, 2022, 6:55 am
Beheaded bodies of 2 girls found in Syria camp housing Islamic State families
Corpses of Egyptian girls, aged 11 and 13, discovered in sewage system in separate part of camp reserved for die-hard supporters of terror group and their children
By Bassam Mroue
File: Hezbollah terror leader Hassan Nasrallah speaks via a video link, as his supporters raise their hands, during the Shiite holy day of Ashoura, in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, August 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
August 17, 2022, 9:37 pm
Hezbollah backers praise Rushdie attack, highlighting Lebanese Shiite divisions
Several of terror group’s opponents get death threats after denouncing author’s stabbing; assailant was radicalized during visit to his father in southern Lebanon, his mother says
By Bassam Mroue
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