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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 346

Rita Daou

Islamic State fighters in a video produced by the group (YouTube screen capture/VICE News)
June 18, 2015, 5:23 am
A year on, Islamic State ‘caliphate’ infamous for brutality
Projection of violence is key to psychological warfare jihadist group has used to help take control of vast swaths of Syria and Iraq
By Rita Daou
A Syrian refugee woman and her son peel potatoes outside their tent, at a refugee camp in the eastern Lebanese town of al-Faour near the border with Syria, December 2, 2014. (AP/Hussein Malla)
January 5, 2015, 5:24 pm
Flooded with refugees, Lebanon restricts entry of Syrians
Adviser to interior minister says influx of 1.1 million people ‘imposes a great security, economic and social burden on Lebanon’
By Sara Hussein and Rita Daou
Syrian refugee children attend a class at a school for Syrian refugees in the Lebanese village of Qaraoun, in the west of the Bekaa Valley on December 16, 2014. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO/JOSEPH EID)
December 25, 2014, 5:55 am
In Lebanon, makeshift schools offer hope to Syrian refugees
Half of the roughly 470,000 school-aged children who fled civil war have no access to education
By Rita Daou
Smoke rises from an airstrike in the Syrian town of Ain al-Arab, known as Kobane by the Kurds, near the Turkish-Syrian border, seen from the southeastern village of Mursitpinar, Sanliurfa province, on October 9, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/ARIS MESSINIS)
October 14, 2014, 8:52 am
Coalition commanders seek plan to counter IS advance
Military leaders of 22 countries to meet in Washington to ‘discuss a common vision’ against Islamic State
By Burak Akinci and Rita Daou
The old Holiday Inn in Beiruit, Lebanon, in 2011. (photo credit: CC BY SA Karan Jain/Flickr)
May 4, 2014, 8:02 am
Beirut eyes future for famed hotel turned civil war relic
Seafront Holiday Inn, up for auction after 24 years of closure, still bears the scars of deadly battles
By Rita Daou
Syrian forces walk in the Krak des Chevaliers area near the Syria-Lebanon border, after seizing the Crusader fortress on March 20, 2014 (photo credit: AFP/Sam Skaine)
March 21, 2014, 5:22 pm
With Hezbollah’s help, Assad makes key advances
In several hot spots, exhausted non-jihadist rebels lay down their arms in exchange for safe passage courtesy of the regime
By Sara Hussein and Rita Daou
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