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In this file photo taken on January 09, 2012 Paris night celebrity, singer, actress and businesswoman Regine poses with a long Ted Lapidus skirt drawn by Erte with the famous "boa" at the Tajan galery in Paris. - Regine died at the age of 92, her granddaughter told AFP on May 1, 2022. (Photo by Eric Feferberg / AFP)
May 2, 2022, 1:57 am
Regine, legendary French-Jewish singer who ‘invented the discotheque,’ dies at 92
The ‘queen of the night’ at one time ran a global nightclub empire but was better known in her homeland as an important singer-songwriter and an actress
By Jean-Francois Guyot, Rana Moussaoui and Jurgen HECKER
In this file photo taken on September 18, 2020, Russian conductor Valery Gergiev performs on stage with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra during the Summer Night Concert at Schoenbrunn Palace in Vienna, Austria, on September 18, 2020. The Munich Philharmonic on March 1, 2022, said it was parting ways with star Russian conductor Valery Gergiev 'with immediate effect' after he failed to respond to a request to denounce Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. (Georg Hochmuth/Pool/AFP)
March 4, 2022, 7:56 pm
For Russia’s dancers, opera singers, conductors, a cultural iron curtain slams down
As the West disconnects from Russia over Putin’s assault on Ukraine, a cultural boycott far more stringent than during the Cold War is falling into place
By Rana Moussaoui
A deserted Republique street in Lyon, as a curfew is in place to fight the spread of COVID-19 (JEFF PACHOUD / AFP)
October 18, 2020, 2:01 am
Europe faces soaring virus cases, Paris enters new curfew
Numerous countries announce new restrictions as daily caseloads break records
By Rana Moussaoui and Chris WRIGHT
A general view taken on August 19, 2017, shows artillery being fired from a Lebanese military base in a mountainous area near the eastern town of Ras Baalbek, as Lebanese troops launched an offensive against the Islamic State group on the country's eastern border with Syria, seeking to drive the jihadists from a long-time stronghold. ( AFP PHOTO / STRINGER)
August 19, 2017, 5:51 pm
Lebanon army launches offensive against IS on Syria border
600 Islamic State fighters believed deployed in two mountainous areas
By Rana Moussaoui
Illustrative photo of rebels from the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front in Idlib Province, northern Syria, January 11, 2013 (AP/Edlib News Network ENN)
July 24, 2017, 12:43 am
Jihadists take control of Syria’s rebel-held Idlib
One of last opposition holdouts now in al-Qaeda affiliate’s hands, former allied group driven out
By Rana Moussaoui
Syrian pro-government forces walks past rubble in old Aleppo's Jdeideh neighborhood on December 9, 2016. (AFP/George Ourfalian)
December 10, 2016, 6:54 am
Syrian army pounds Aleppo rebels as US, Russia to meet
Kerry says ‘tired’ of meetings with Moscow, ‘but what am I supposed to do? Go home and have a nice weekend while people are dying?’
By Karam al-Masri and Rana Moussaoui
Syrian President Bashar Assad gestures during an interview in the capital Damascus on February 11, 2016. (AFP/Joseph Eid)
September 10, 2016, 7:25 pm
Syrian government approves US-Russia ceasefire deal
But as Assad regime agrees to a ‘cessation of hostilities’ brokered by Kerry and Lavrov, fresh airstrikes on city of Idlib kill dozens
By Rana Moussaoui and Dave Clark
A journalist looks at a montage by a Syrian activist, using the international frenzy over the Pokemon Go game to draw new attention to the battle-scarred country, in Beirut on July 22, 2016. (Joseph Eid)
July 22, 2016, 7:56 pm
Syrians harness Pokémon Go frenzy to depict plight
Local artist superimposes popular mobile app game characters on photos of battle-scared cities to raise awareness
By Rana Moussaoui
People gather around the rubble of a hospital supported by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) near Maaret al-Numan, in Syria's northern province of Idlib, on February 15, 2016, after the building was hit by suspected Russian airstrikes. (AFP/AL-MAARRA TODAY/GHAITH OMRAN)
February 16, 2016, 2:23 am
US blames Russia for killing around 50 in Syria airstrikes
UN, Washington condemn deadly strikes on hospitals and schools near Idlib, Aleppo as Kurdish fighters capture key town in face of Turkish bombardment
By Rana Moussaoui and Andre Viollaz
A man carries a child on his shoulders as Syrians fleeing the northern embattled city of Aleppo wait on February 5, 2016 in northern Syria, near the Turkish border. (AFP / BULENT KILIC)
February 5, 2016, 8:42 pm
Tens of thousands of Syrians flee to Turkish border
Major offensive by Assad’s Russia-backed forces drives fearful civilians away from fierce fighting
By Rana Moussaoui and Mohamad Al Ghandour
View of the forest in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, May 21, 2015 (AFP / JOSEPH EID)
June 30, 2015, 9:09 am
Beirut’s green lung off-limits to Lebanese
Residents bemoan entry restrictions to 30 hectares of pine forest in the seaside city’s center
By Rana Moussaoui
Marie Mansourati, 83, adjusts pictures of her kidnapped son Dani, more than two decades after he was taken by Syrian troops to Damascus, at her house in Beirut on April 8, 2015. (photo credit: AFP/ Joseph Eid)
April 11, 2015, 9:49 pm
Lebanon civil war still haunts families of disappeared
Decades after end of conflict, relatives of the 17,000 missing from 15 years of civil war unable to mourn
By Rana Moussaoui
Syrian national Jihad al-Mohamed stands in an abandoned synagogue where has has been living in Lebanon's southern city of Sidon on Feb. 8, 2015. Five destitute Syrian and Palestinian families have taken up residence in the synagogue and few signs remain to indicate that the building was once a Jewish house of worship. (Photo credit: Joseph Eid/AFP)
February 26, 2015, 9:42 am
Old Lebanese synagogue now a home for destitute
Syrian and Palestinian families find shelter in an unlikely place, abandoned by Sidon’s Jews over 30 years ago
By Rana Moussaoui
Thick smoke, debris and fire rise following an airstrike by the US-led coalition in Kobani, Syria, as fighting intensified between Syrian Kurds and the militants of Islamic State group, as seen from Mursitpinar on the outskirts of Suruc, at the Turkey-Syria border, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2014. (photo credit: AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
October 13, 2014, 12:53 am
Kurds thwart IS in Syrian town, but Iraq on back foot
Jihadists knocked back in Kobani, but threaten key oil refinery town
By Burak Akinci and Rana Moussaoui
Pictures of President Bashar Assad, his late father and predecessor Hafez Assad, and Lebanese Hezbollah Leader Hassan Nasrallah are displayed at a street shop on May 11, 2014 in the capital Damascus. (photo credit: AFP/JOSEPH EID)
May 12, 2014, 4:43 pm
Assad omnipresent in Damascus ahead of vote
Posters of Syrian president adorn nearly every wall in capital as election, thought to be one-horse race, nears
By Rana Moussaoui
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