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Rouba El Husseini

Fighters with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) line up to put their weapons into a pit during a ceremony in Sulaimaniyah, in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, on July 11, 2025. (Shwan MOHAMMED / AFP)
July 12, 2025, 12:52 pm
Kurdish PKK fighters burn their weapons at disarmament ceremony in Iraq
Erdogan hails symbolic destruction of arms as step toward ‘terror-free Turkey’; top PKK fighter says jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan must be set free for rapprochement to work
By Rouba El Husseini and HAZEL WARD
File: A picture shows the Kurdish-run al-Hol camp, which holds relatives of suspected Islamic State group fighters in the northeastern Hasakeh governorate, during a security operation by the Kurdish Asayish security forces and the special forces of the Syrian Democratic Forces, on August 26, 2022. (Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP)
March 18, 2024, 11:29 am
Punished for the sins of their fathers, children of ISIS left to rot in Syrian camp
Over 40,000 inmates are guarded by US-backed Kurds at al-Hol, half of them children, who face beatings and sexual abuse, and are sometimes separated from their families by guards
By Rouba El Husseini
File: Syrian children run through the snow in the Syrian refugee camp of al-Hilal in the village of al-Taybeh near Baalbek in Lebanon's Bekaa valley, on January 20, 2022. (AFP)
April 28, 2023, 10:16 am
‘I’d rather die’: Syrians in Lebanon fear prison, torture if deported home
With civil war winding down, Lebanon begins crackdown on undocumented refugees as domestic pressure mounts to send back those who poured across border a decade ago
By Aya Iskandarani and Rouba El Husseini
Supporters of Lebanon's President Michel Aoun cheer under a large national flag, as he prepares to leave the presidential palace in Babbda at the end of his mandate, east of the capital Beirut, on October 30, 2022. (Anwar Amro / AFP)
November 1, 2022, 12:53 pm
Without a president, Lebanon fears power vacuum amid ongoing crises
Michel Aoun’s six-year term, which came to a close on Sunday, was marred by mass protests, a painful economic downturn and the deadly August 2020 mega-explosion in Beirut
By Rouba El Husseini
Electoral billboards overlook a bridge in Lebanon's capital Beirut, on May 14, 2022, on the eve of parliamentary elections. (LOUAI BESHARA / AFP)
May 15, 2022, 6:34 am
Lebanon votes in first election since crisis, with little hope for change
Political class blamed for country’s woes is expected to hold onto levers of power
By Rouba El Husseini
Supporters of the Shiite Amal group fire weapons in the air during the funeral processions of Hassan Jamil Nehmeh, who was killed during clashes, in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh, Lebanon, Friday, Oct. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
October 15, 2021, 8:34 pm
Lebanon on edge as funerals held for seven killed in Beirut gunbattle
Hezbollah, which had 2 fighters among the dead, accuses Christian group of trying to ‘start a civil war’; terror group says ‘cannot allow the blood of our (martyrs) to go to waste’
By Rouba El Husseini
Civilians running during clashes in the area of Tayouneh, in the southern suburb of the capital Beirut on October 14, 2021, following a demonstration by supporters of Hezbollah and the Amal movements. (AFP)
October 15, 2021, 10:37 am
Lebanon unrest revives all-too-familiar ghost of civil war
After Thursday’s deadly gunbattles, citizens who lived through the bloody chaos from 1975-1990 fear violence could return to dominate their country
By Rouba El Husseini
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
A woman and her son look at the damaged grain silos at the port of Beirut following a huge explosion that disfigured the Lebanese capital, August 12, 2020. (Anwar AMRO / AFP)
September 18, 2020, 5:11 am
Dockside dealings: Smuggling, bribery, tax evasion rampant at Beirut port
Widespread corruption at harbor is representative of dysfunctional state riddled with graft, experts say; Hezbollah terror group has free rein to smuggle in drugs and weapons
By Rouba El Husseini
Lebanese children clean debris in Beirut's Gemmayzeh neighborhood on August 8, 2020, four days after a monster explosion killed more than 150 people and disfigured the Lebanese capital. (AFP)
August 11, 2020, 8:18 pm
‘I don’t want to die’: Blast traumatizes Beirut children
UN estimates that port explosion displaced about 100,000 children as harrowing stories emerge of kids reacting with terror, parents trying to help them cope with fear
By Rouba El Husseini
Anti-government protesters chant slogans outside the Lebanese foreign ministry in Beirut, Lebanon, August 8, 2020. (AP/Bilal Hussein)
August 9, 2020, 4:08 am
How furious protesters briefly conquered Lebanon’s foreign ministry
Led by former army officers, demonstrators peacefully entered the building to express anger over the Beirut explosion and economic woes, before being forced out 3 hours later
By Tony Gamal-Gabriel and Rouba El Husseini
An injured man walks at the explosion scene that hit the seaport in Beirut, Lebanon, August 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
August 5, 2020, 3:48 am
Lebanese PM: 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate caused ‘disaster in every sense’
Hassan Diab says agricultural fertilizer stored for years in a portside warehouse blew up in massive explosion heard in Cyprus, 150 miles away
By Bachir El Khoury and Rouba El Husseini
In this file photo taken on June 17, 2020, a Lebanese woman stands next to her empty refrigerator in her apartment in the port city of Tripoli north of the capital Beirut (IBRAHIM CHALHOUB / AFP)
July 15, 2020, 8:29 am
‘Hunger crimes’ on the rise in crisis-hit Lebanon
Security official says increase seems to be driven by the deepening economic crisis, with baby milk, food, and medicine often sought as runaway inflation sends costs soaring
By Rouba El Husseini
In this file photo taken on January 5, 2013, a dummy dressed up in army fatigue and a mask depicting Syrian President Bashar Assad is erected in the Salaheddine neighborhood of Aleppo, the scene of heavy fighting. (Photo by MAURICIO MORALES / AFP)
March 12, 2020, 4:26 pm
Syria war enters tenth year with no hope in sight
Fighting and displacement still at its height, 9 years after demonstrators demanded the ouster of President Assad and precipitated 21st century’s biggest war so far
By Rouba El Husseini
Screen capture from video of a Turkey Armed Forces convoy is seen at the northern town of Sarmada, in Idlib province, Syria, February 2, 2020. (APTN/AP)
February 3, 2020, 9:00 pm
At least 20 reported dead in flare-up between Turkey and Syria
Troops trade fire after Turkish convey of hundreds of vehicles enters northwest Syria, monitor group says; another 14 civilians said killed in Russian airstrike
By Rouba El Husseini and Fulya Ozerkan
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