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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 473

Kareem Chehayeb

Syria's de facto leader Ahmad al-Sharaa, right, meets with Debra Tice, left, the mother of American journalist Austin Tice, who went missing in Syria in 2012, left, and Nizar Zakka, head of non-profit Hostage Aid Worldwide, center, in Damascus, Syria, January 20, 2025. (SANA via AP)
January 20, 2025, 2:11 pm
In Syria, mother of missing journalist Austin Tice says Trump team offered help
Debra Tice has ‘productive meeting’ in Damascus with Ahmad al-Sharaa, leader of Syria’s new administration, whom she describes as ‘dedicated and determined’ to get her son back
By Kareem Chehayeb and Albert Aji
Abu Mohammed al-Golani, head of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a jihadist group led by Al-Qaeda's former Syria branch, poses for a selfie during a press conference in the area of Bab al Hawa crossing northern Syria late on March 12, 2024. (Photo by OMAR HAJ KADOUR / AFP)
December 8, 2024, 4:15 pm
Who is Abu Mohammed al-Golani, leader of insurgency that toppled Syria’s Assad?
Senior al-Qaeda commander, 42, whose real name is Ahmad al-Sharaa, split from terror group, now depicts himself as champion of pluralism; US offered $10m. for info enabling his capture
By Kareem Chehayeb
Smoke rises during clashes between members of the Palestinian Fatah group and Islamist militants in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh near the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, September 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
September 11, 2023, 1:17 pm
Islamists in Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon say they will honor ceasefire
Tense calm in Ein el-Hilweh after three days of clashes killed at least five people and left hundreds of families displaced
By FADI TAWIL and Kareem Chehayeb
Supporters of the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) community attend a sit-in to protest the ongoing criminalization of homosexuality and arbitrary arrests in front of Hobeich police station, in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, May 15, 2016. (AP/Hussein Malla)
September 1, 2023, 11:45 am
Lebanese politicians ramp up fight against LGBTQ community
Once seen as relatively tolerant for a Middle Eastern country, Lebanon’s political leaders have become unified in efforts to scapegoat the LGBTQ community
By BASSEM MROUE and Kareem Chehayeb
A crowd of people gather at the courtyard of the Sursock Museum during an opening event for the iconic venue in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, May 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
May 27, 2023, 7:00 pm
From ashes and debris, iconic Beirut museum reopens 3 years after port blast
Much of Sursock Museum’s art was heavily damaged by the massive explosion that ripped through the capital in 2020
By Kareem Chehayeb
Syria's empty seat is pictured during an emergency meeting of Arab League foreign ministers in Cairo on May 7, 2023. (Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)
May 17, 2023, 4:25 pm
Arab League to reinstate Syria amid regional disputes
While trying to resolve conflict in Sudan, League’s readmission of Assad regime marks controversial turning point in war-torn nation’s diplomatic status
By Kareem Chehayeb
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry speaks during a meeting of Arab League foreign ministers in Cairo on May 7, 2023. (Khaled Desouki/AFP)
May 9, 2023, 4:26 pm
What drove Syria’s return to the Arab League, and what impact will it have?
Analysts suggest Damascus’s former allies have recognized that 12 years of shutting Assad out had little practical effect on conflict
By Kareem Chehayeb and ABBY SEWELL
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
File: Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, receives a delegation representing various Arab parliaments in Damascus, February 26, 2023. (SANA via AP)
May 7, 2023, 4:02 pm
Arab League readmits Syria 12 years after its suspension over civil war
Several members, including Qatar, do not attend Cairo meeting; decision also includes commitment to dialogue aimed at reaching political solution to conflict
By MOHAMED WAGDY and Kareem Chehayeb
In this photo released by the official Facebook page of the Syrian Presidency, Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, shakes hands with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in Damascus, Syria, May 3, 2023. (Syrian Presidency via Facebook via AP)
May 3, 2023, 2:05 pm
Raisi meets Assad on first visit to Syria by an Iranian president in 13 years
Leaders sign series of long-term cooperation agreements, including on oil, agriculture and railways; rare meeting comes as some Arab countries have been warming up to Damascus
By Albert Aji and Kareem Chehayeb
LGBTQ activists in Lebanon shout slogans as they march calling on the government for more rights in the country gripped by economic and financial crisis during ongoing protests in Beirut, Lebanon on June 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)
February 22, 2023, 12:56 am
Mideast governments targeting LGBTQ people online, rights group says
Report documents dozens of cases of security agencies in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Tunisia extorting members of LGBTQ community based on their social media activities
By Kareem Chehayeb
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
Rescue teams search through the wreckage of collapsed buildings in Aleppo, Syria, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. (AP/Omar Sanadiki)
February 8, 2023, 4:53 am
Aid to quake-hit Syria slowed by sanctions, war divisions
US and European countries reluctant to route aid directly through Assad government, a pariah in much of the international community
By ABBY SEWELL and Kareem Chehayeb
People stand in front of damaged buildings in the town of Douma, the site of a suspected chemical weapon attack, near Damascus, Syria, on April 16, 2018. (Hassan Ammar/AP)
February 2, 2023, 2:53 pm
Syria blasts chemical watchdog report on 2018 attack as pandering to Western nations
Damascus regime’s representative in Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons says group’s findings based on ‘serious irregularities and defects’
By SAMAR KASSABALLI and Kareem Chehayeb
Anti-government protesters scuffle with riot police outside the Ministry of Justice, in Beirut, Lebanon on January 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
January 26, 2023, 6:56 pm
Anger soars in Beirut after prosecutor orders release of all suspects in port blast
Several demonstrators wounded as police pushed crowds back from judiciary after officials moved to cripple probe into explosion that wreaked havoc on Lebanon’s capital
By FADI TAWIL and Kareem Chehayeb
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