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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 367

Maher Al Mounes

Rescue teams continue to search for victims and survivors in the rubble of collapsed buildings after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck the border region of Turkey and Syria earlier in the week, in Kahramanmaras, Turkey, February 13, 2023. (Ozan Kose/AFP)
February 14, 2023, 5:30 am
Search for survivors winds down as Turkey-Syria quake death toll hits 35,000
Rescue teams turn focus to humanitarian disaster, as international pariah Assad allows more aid to rebel-held areas and estimated 5 million Syrians left homeless
By Fulya Ozerkan, Joris FIORITI and Maher Al Mounes
People stand on top of rubble of collapsed buildings during rescue operations after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck the border region of Turkey and Syria last week, in Hatay, Turkey, February 12, 2023. (BULENT KILIC/AFP)
February 13, 2023, 11:46 am
In miracle rescues, survivors pulled from rubble a week after Turkey-Syria quake
7-year-old boy, 62-year-old woman saved from collapsed buildings, as more than 32,000 Turks, over 8,000 international workers participate in search and rescue efforts
By Fulya Ozerkan, Joris FIORITI and Maher Al Mounes
Actors are pictured in the Hajar al-Aswad neighborhood of Damascus during the filming of "Home Operation," produced by actor Jackie Chan and inspired by real events of the emergency evacuation of Chinese and foreign nationals and diplomats during the early days of a civil war in Yemen, July 14, 2022. (Louai Beshara/AFP)
July 17, 2022, 11:41 am
Former Islamic State stronghold in Syria hosts Jackie Chan film set
‘Home Operation’ was inspired by China’s 2015 operation to evacuate its citizens and other foreigners from Yemen amid civil war, but film only mentions fictional country ‘Poman’
By Maher Al Mounes
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his wife Asma cast their votes at a polling station in Douma, near Damascus on May 26, 2021, as voting began across Syria for an election guaranteed to return Assad for a fourth term in office. (Photo LOUAI BESHARA / AFP)
May 27, 2021, 6:36 am
Assad dismisses critics as Syria votes to extend his grip on power
US, Britain, France, Germany and Italy say poll ‘neither free nor fair’; fragmented opposition calls it a ‘farce’
By Maher Al Mounes and Rouba El Husseini
Dahouk Idriss shows a page on her passport during an interview with AFP at her house in the Syrian capital Damascus on January 16, 2021. (Photo by LOUAI BESHARA / AFP)
January 19, 2021, 11:41 am
After years of waiting to see their children, Mideast moms count days to Biden
US president-elect has vowed to overturn travel ban from Muslim-majority countries; Syrian woman: ‘I’m probably more impatient for Biden to become president than he is himself’
By Maher Al Mounes
A Syrian policeman walks past ballot boxes, ahead of handing them over to the police to deliver them to polling stations on the eve of the parliamentary elections, in the Syrian city of Aleppo on July 18, 2020 (AFP)
July 19, 2020, 7:33 am
Syrians vote for new parliament amid war, economic turmoil
Elections postponed twice due to pandemic, with any real opposition absent, and the ruling Baath party expected to retain its hegemony
By Maher Al Mounes
Abu Zakkour, Aleppo's so-called 'yellow man' eats a cob of corn in the central Saadallah al-Jabiri square in the northern Syrian city on February 11, 2019. (LOUAI BESHARA/AFP)
April 2, 2019, 2:54 pm
Aleppo’s mysterious ‘yellow man’
For over 30 years Abu Zakkour has only worn the same shade of clothing, but won’t tell anyone why
By Maher Al Mounes
The United Arab Emirates embassy in the Syrian capital Damascus on December 27, 2018, after its reopening, the latest sign of efforts to bring the Syrian government back into the Arab fold. (AFP)
December 27, 2018, 4:46 pm
UAE reopens Damascus embassy after seven years
Emirati flag flies above new Syrian mission, as Gulf nation says it’s ‘keen to put relations back on their normal track’
By Maher Al Mounes and Rouba El Husseini
This picture taken from Syria shows the United Nations peacekeepers bunkers and Israeli part of the Quneitra border crossing as Syrian officials prepare for its reopening on October 15, 2018. (Photo by LOUAI BESHARA / AFP)
October 16, 2018, 3:04 am
At Golan crossing reopening, Druze yearn to see family soon
Sole crossing between Israel’s Golan Heights and Syria had been closed for seven years after being overrun by jihadists during the Syrian civil war
By Maher Al Mounes
Visitors arrive at the Damascus International Fair in the Syrian capital on September 9, 2018. (LOUAI BESHARA/AFP)
September 13, 2018, 6:11 pm
Eyeing reconstruction, Russia, Iran take center stage at Syria expo
War allies who helped regime defeat rebels are now first in line for lucrative contracts to rebuild the shattered Syrian infrastructure
By Maher Al Mounes
Syrian regime forces drive motorbikes past buses waiting at the entrance of Harasta in Eastern Ghouta, on the outskirts of Damascus, on March 22, 2018, after a deal was struck with the rebels in the area to evacuate the town. (AFP PHOTO / Louai Beshara)
March 22, 2018, 2:02 pm
Syrian rebels to evacuate Ghouta as 19 civilians killed in fresh strikes
Russian-backed regime forces continue assault on rebel-held Damascus suburb as fighters and their families prepare to leave enclave
By Maher Al Mounes and Rouba El Husseini
A Syrian man arranges dresses at a wedding gown store in the Syrian capital Damascus on January 8, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / LOUAI BESHARA)
February 19, 2018, 7:53 am
For single Syrian women, search for soulmate comes up empty
Prospective partners in short supply as many men have emigrated, gone to the front or lost their lives in ongoing war
By Maher Al Mounes
Employees of Arados brewery work on the production line at their plant in the northwestern Syrian city of Safita, southeast of Tartous on November 15, 2017. (AFP Photo/Louai Beshara)
December 18, 2017, 5:20 am
Local brews make a comeback in Syria
As fighting subsides across much of warn-torn country, Damascus and Aleppo try to hop back into the brewery business with their own provincial lagers
By Maher Al Mounes
Syrian artist Rashid Assaf, left, is seen on the filming set of television series 'Tawq al-Banat' in the village of Yaafur, some 20kilometers (12 miles) west of Damascus, May 14,2017. (AFP/Louai Beshara)
May 30, 2017, 7:55 am
Syria war becomes backdrop of Ramadan TV dramas
Ongoing fighting has left many filming locations out of bounds, while other places in war-torn country become ‘real-life set’
By Maher Al Mounes
Syrian mourners attend a funeral ceremony in the Sayyida Zeinab mosque on the outskirts of Damascus on April 26, 2017, for the victims of a bombing that targeted buses carrying evacuees from the besieged government-held towns of Fuaa and Kafraya. (Louai Beshara / AFP)
April 26, 2017, 8:49 pm
Mass funeral held for victims of Syrian convoy bombing
More than 50 of at least 150 victims from Fuaa and Kafraya buried at Shiite shrine south of Damascus
By Maher Al Mounes
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